Natural hazards · Honea Path

Honea Path, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Honea Path 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 Honea Path?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Honea Path to be higher than in 29% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding37%Cold waves26%Tornadoes14%Earthquakes7%Strong wind5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Honea Path faces

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

26% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 78 years in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year 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 Honea Path flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Anderson County.

Disasters that hit Honea Path

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Honea PathDeclared for Anderson County only

2024

Hurricane Helene

2,417 households applied for aid $1.8M aid approved $48K to the Town of Honea Path for repairs

2015

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $491 aid approved

2005

Severe Ice Storm

$25K to the Town of Honea Path for repairs

Anderson County has had 15 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. Honea Path 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 Honea Path’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Honea Path. 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.