Natural hazards · Chickasaw Point

Chickasaw Point, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Chickasaw Point 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 Chickasaw Point?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Chickasaw Point to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding45%Cold waves33%Tornadoes9%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Chickasaw Point faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

33% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 71 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Chickasaw Point flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Oconee County.

Disasters that hit Chickasaw Point

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Chickasaw PointDeclared for Oconee County only

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

Around Chickasaw Point

Chickasaw Point and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Gumlogmostly inland floodingHigh

Chickasaw Pointmostly inland floodingModerate

South Unionmostly cold wavesLow

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