Natural hazards · Dentsville

Dentsville, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dentsville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 2006.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dentsville?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dentsville to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding40%Earthquakes18%Hurricanes14%Tornadoes11%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Dentsville faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 10% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Dentsville flood?

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

8paid claims since 2006

$329Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20062026

Biggest named events

October severe storms: 3 claims, $186K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Richland County.

Disasters that hit Dentsville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DentsvilleDeclared for Richland County only

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

Around Dentsville

Dentsville and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Forest Acresmostly inland floodingHigh

Arcadia Lakesmostly inland floodingLow

Columbiamostly inland floodingLow

Woodfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Dentsvillemostly 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. Dentsville covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dentsville’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dentsville. 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 Dentsville total about $2.0M 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.