Natural hazards · Abney Crossroads

Abney Crossroads, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Abney Crossroads comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Abney Crossroads?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Abney Crossroads to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes31%Inland flooding29%Tornadoes10%Earthquakes8%Cold waves6%Strong wind5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Abney Crossroads faces

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

Hurricanes

31% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Abney Crossroads flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Abney 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: Kershaw County.

Disasters that hit Abney Crossroads

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Abney CrossroadsDeclared for Kershaw County only

Kershaw County has had 20 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. Abney Crossroads 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 Abney Crossroads’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Abney Crossroads. 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.