Natural hazards · Wade Hampton

Wade Hampton, SC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wade Hampton comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 136 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wade Hampton?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wade Hampton to be higher than in 35% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes13%Cold waves9%Earthquakes7%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Wade Hampton 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 52% 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

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Wade Hampton flood?

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

136paid claims since 1979

$2.3Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Helene: 24 claims, $702K
Hurricane Cindy: 15 claims, $229K
October severe storms: 1 claim, $305

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Wade Hampton 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 Wade Hampton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Wade HamptonDeclared for Greenville County only

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

Around Wade Hampton

Wade Hampton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Taylorsmostly inland floodingHigh

Greenvillemostly inland floodingLow

Wade Hamptonmostly 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. Wade Hampton covers 6 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wade Hampton’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Wade Hampton. 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 Wade Hampton total about $7.2M 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.