Natural hazards · Lowrys

Lowrys, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lowrys comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lowrys?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lowrys to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves33%Inland flooding24%Tornadoes18%Everything else25%

By hazard

What Lowrys faces

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

Cold waves

33% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Lowrys flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chester County.

Disasters that hit Lowrys

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LowrysDeclared for Chester County only

Chester County has had 18 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. Lowrys 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 Lowrys’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Lowrys. 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.