Natural hazards · Cokesbury

Cokesbury, SC natural hazards

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

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cokesbury to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding42%Cold waves25%Tornadoes16%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Cokesbury faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

25% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 42 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 Cokesbury flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Greenwood County.

Disasters that hit Cokesbury

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CokesburyDeclared for Greenwood County only

Greenwood County has had 14 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. Cokesbury 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 Cokesbury’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Cokesbury. 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.