Natural hazards · Arthurtown

Arthurtown, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Arthurtown 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 Arthurtown?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Arthurtown to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding44%Earthquakes23%Hurricanes16%Tornadoes7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Arthurtown 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

Well below average · higher than 14% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Arthurtown flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Richland County.

Disasters that hit Arthurtown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ArthurtownDeclared for Richland County only

Richland County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Arthurtown

Arthurtown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Caycemostly inland floodingModerate

Columbiamostly inland floodingLow

Arthurtownmostly inland floodingLow

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