Natural hazards · Centerville

Centerville, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Centerville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2021.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Centerville?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Centerville to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding44%Cold waves22%Tornadoes14%Everything else21%

By hazard

What Centerville 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

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Centerville flood?

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

1paid claims since 2021

$9Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20212026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Anderson County.

Disasters that hit Centerville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CentervilleDeclared for Anderson County only

Anderson County has had 15 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. Centerville covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Centerville’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Centerville. 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 Centerville total about $2.5M 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.