Natural hazards · Lodge

Lodge, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lodge comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high 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 Lodge?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lodge to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes60%Inland flooding16%Earthquakes9%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Lodge faces

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

Hurricanes

60% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Lodge flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Colleton County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Lodge

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LodgeDeclared for Colleton County only

2020

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Straight-Line Winds

1 household applied for aid $3K aid approved

2016

Hurricane Matthew

12 households applied for aid $3K aid approved

2015

Severe Storms and Flooding

11 households applied for aid $234 aid approved

Colleton 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. Lodge 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 Lodge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Lodge. 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.