Natural hazards · Five Forks

Five Forks, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Five Forks comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2006. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Five Forks?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding70%Tornadoes10%Cold waves7%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Five Forks faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 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 Five Forks flood?

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

2paid claims since 2006

$18Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20062026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Greenville County.

Disasters that hit Five Forks

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Five Forks itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Five Forks.

Brought FEMA money into Five ForksDeclared for Greenville County only

2015

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

Greenville County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and ice 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. Five Forks covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Five Forks’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Five Forks. 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 Five Forks total about $2.3M 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.