Natural hazards · Mulberry

Mulberry, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mulberry comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mulberry?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mulberry to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding28%Earthquakes26%Hurricanes20%Tornadoes8%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Mulberry faces

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

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

26% of expected damage

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

Hurricanes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce 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 Mulberry flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sumter County.

Disasters that hit Mulberry

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MulberryDeclared for Sumter County only

Sumter County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Mulberry

Mulberry and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sumtermostly inland floodingModerate

Mulberrymostly inland floodingModerate

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. Mulberry 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 Mulberry’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mulberry. 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.