Natural hazards · Cherryvale

Cherryvale, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cherryvale comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cherryvale?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding43%Hurricanes19%Earthquakes11%Tornadoes8%Cold waves5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Cherryvale faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hurricanes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Cherryvale flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sumter County.

Disasters that hit Cherryvale

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CherryvaleDeclared for Sumter County only

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

Around Cherryvale

Cherryvale and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cherryvalemostly inland floodingModerate

Sumtermostly inland floodingModerate

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