Natural hazards · Vass

Vass, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vass comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2018. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Vass?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vass to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding44%Hurricanes18%Tornadoes16%Everything else22%

By hazard

What Vass faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 61 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Vass flood?

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

2paid claims since 2018

$79Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20182026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Michael: 1 claim, $75K
Hurricane Debby: 1 claim, $4K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Moore County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

32flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Vass

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Vass itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Vass.

Brought FEMA money into VassDeclared for Moore County only

2018

Hurricane Florence

165 households applied for aid $429K aid approved

2016

Hurricane Matthew

165 households applied for aid $228K aid approved

Moore County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter 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. Vass is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Vass’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Vass. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.