Natural hazards · Sans Souci

Sans Souci, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sans Souci comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 35 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sans Souci?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sans Souci to be higher than in 46% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes13%Cold waves11%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Sans Souci faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Cold waves

11% 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 windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Sans Souci flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Sans Souci, from FEMA’s records.

35paid claims since 1978

$460Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Helene: 11 claims, $137K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Greenville County.

Disasters that hit Sans Souci

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Sans SouciDeclared for Greenville County only

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

Around Sans Souci

Sans Souci and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

City Viewmostly inland floodingModerate

Sans Soucimostly inland floodingModerate

Parkermostly inland floodingLow

Greenvillemostly inland floodingLow

Bereamostly 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. Sans Souci covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sans Souci’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Sans Souci. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Sans Souci total about $1.9M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.