Natural hazards · Six Mile

Six Mile, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Six Mile comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Six Mile?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Six Mile to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding64%Cold waves13%Everything else23%

By hazard

What Six Mile faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Six Mile flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pickens County.

Disasters that hit Six Mile

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Six Mile itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Six Mile.

Brought FEMA money into Six MileDeclared for Pickens County only

2024

Hurricane Helene

512 households applied for aid $314K aid approved

2020

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Straight-Line Winds

3 households applied for aid $3K aid approved

Pickens County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and fires.

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