Natural hazards · Forestbrook

Forestbrook, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Forestbrook comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 68 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Forestbrook?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Forestbrook to be higher than in 90% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes62%Inland flooding16%Tornadoes8%Earthquakes6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Forestbrook faces

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

Hurricanes

62% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

LandslidesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Forestbrook flood?

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

68paid claims since 1981

$1.3Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Floyd: 14 claims, $373K
Hurricane Matthew: 9 claims, $339K
Hurricane Florence: 3 claims, $26K

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Horry County.

Disasters that hit Forestbrook

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ForestbrookDeclared for Horry County only

Horry County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and fires.

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. Forestbrook covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Forestbrook’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Forestbrook. 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 Forestbrook total about $4.9M 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.