Natural hazards · Boiling Springs

Boiling Springs, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Boiling Springs comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2020. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Boiling Springs?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Boiling Springs to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding69%Cold waves9%Earthquakes5%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Boiling Springs faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% 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 Boiling Springs flood?

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

2paid claims since 2020

$88Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20202026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Helene: 1 claim, $86K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Spartanburg County.

Disasters that hit Boiling Springs

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Boiling Springs itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Boiling Springs.

Brought FEMA money into Boiling SpringsDeclared for Spartanburg County only

2024

Hurricane Helene

7,003 households applied for aid $4.4M aid approved

2015

Severe Storms and Flooding

14 households applied for aid $7K aid approved

Spartanburg County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Boiling Springs

Boiling Springs and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Boiling Springsmostly inland floodingModerate

Valley Fallsmostly 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. Boiling Springs covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Boiling Springs’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Boiling Springs. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Boiling Springs total about $3.6M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.