Natural hazards · Newport

Newport, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Newport comes from inland flooding, 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 Newport?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Newport to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes25%Cold waves6%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Newport faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

25% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 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 Newport flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: York County.

Disasters that hit Newport

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NewportDeclared for York County only

York County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Newport

Newport and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Newportmostly inland floodingLow

Rock Hillmostly inland floodingLow

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