Natural hazards · Newtown

Newtown, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Newtown comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Newtown?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Newtown to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes56%Inland flooding20%Tornadoes8%Earthquakes7%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Newtown faces

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

Hurricanes

56% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% 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 Newtown flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dillon County.

Disasters that hit Newtown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NewtownDeclared for Dillon County only

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