Natural hazards · Edgefield

Edgefield, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Edgefield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Edgefield?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding44%Earthquakes14%Tornadoes9%Strong wind7%Cold waves6%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Edgefield faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Earthquakes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 35 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Edgefield flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Edgefield County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2buildings retrofitted against wind

Disasters that hit Edgefield

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Edgefield itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Edgefield.

Brought FEMA money into EdgefieldDeclared for Edgefield County only

2024

Hurricane Helene

1,982 households applied for aid $2.0M aid approved $39K to the Town of Edgefield for repairs

2014

Severe Winter Storm

$22K to the Town of Edgefield for repairs

2004

Severe Ice Storm

$28K to the Town of Edgefield for repairs

Edgefield County has had 16 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. Edgefield 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 Edgefield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Edgefield. 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.