Natural hazards · Arial

Arial, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Arial comes from inland flooding, 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 Arial?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Arial to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Cold waves10%Earthquakes6%Everything else21%

By hazard

What Arial faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Arial flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pickens County.

Disasters that hit Arial

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ArialDeclared for Pickens County only

Pickens County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and fires.

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. Arial 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 Arial’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Arial. 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.