Natural hazards · Wentworth

Wentworth, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wentworth comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wentworth?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wentworth to be higher than in 42% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding76%Hurricanes5%Tornadoes5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Wentworth faces

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

Inland flooding

76% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% 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 Wentworth flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Wentworth.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Rockingham County.

Disasters that hit Wentworth

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WentworthDeclared for Rockingham County only

Rockingham County has had 22 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. Wentworth 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 Wentworth’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Wentworth. 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.