Natural hazards · Dovesville

Dovesville, SC natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding32%Hurricanes22%Tornadoes15%Cold waves8%Heat waves6%Earthquakes5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Dovesville faces

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

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hurricanes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Dovesville flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Darlington County.

Disasters that hit Dovesville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DovesvilleDeclared for Darlington County only

Darlington County has had 18 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. Dovesville 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 Dovesville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dovesville. 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.