Natural hazards · Vann Crossroads

Vann Crossroads, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vann Crossroads comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2016.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Vann Crossroads?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vann Crossroads to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes61%Inland flooding16%Strong wind6%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Vann Crossroads faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Hurricanes

61% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Vann Crossroads flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Vann Crossroads, from FEMA’s records.

3paid claims since 2016

$52Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20162026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Florence: 2 claims, $38K
Hurricane Matthew: 1 claim, $15K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Vann Crossroads isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Sampson County.

Disasters that hit Vann Crossroads

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Sampson County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Vann Crossroads itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Vann CrossroadsDeclared for Sampson County only

Sampson County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Vann Crossroads covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Vann Crossroads’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Vann Crossroads. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Vann Crossroads total about $4.2M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.