Natural hazards · Wilkinson Heights

Wilkinson Heights, SC natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wilkinson Heights?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wilkinson Heights to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and earthquakes.

Hurricanes37%Earthquakes26%Inland flooding22%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Wilkinson Heights faces

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

Hurricanes

37% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Earthquakes

26% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 8% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 Wilkinson Heights flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Orangeburg County.

Disasters that hit Wilkinson Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Wilkinson HeightsDeclared for Orangeburg County only

Orangeburg County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Wilkinson Heights

Wilkinson Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Orangeburgmostly hurricanesHigh

Wilkinson Heightsmostly hurricanesModerate

Brookdalemostly earthquakesModerate

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. Wilkinson Heights covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wilkinson Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Wilkinson Heights. 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 Wilkinson Heights total about $668K 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.