Natural hazards · Zion

Zion, SC natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Zion?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Zion to be higher than in 86% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and cold waves.

Hurricanes46%Cold waves20%Inland flooding15%Tornadoes8%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Zion faces

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

Hurricanes

46% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Inland flooding

15% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 78 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Zion flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marion County.

Disasters that hit Zion

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ZionDeclared for Marion County only

Marion County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

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. Zion 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 Zion’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Zion. 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.