Natural hazards · Pine Ridge

Pine Ridge, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pine Ridge comes from tornadoes, 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 Pine Ridge?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pine Ridge to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes32%Inland flooding31%Hurricanes11%Heat waves7%Cold waves6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Pine Ridge faces

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

Tornadoes

32% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Pine Ridge flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lexington County.

Disasters that hit Pine Ridge

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pine RidgeDeclared for Lexington County only

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

Around Pine Ridge

Pine Ridge and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

South Congareemostly inland floodingHigh

Caycemostly inland floodingModerate

Pine Ridgemostly tornadoesLow

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