Natural hazards · Fairfield Glade

Fairfield Glade, TN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fairfield Glade comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fairfield Glade?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fairfield Glade to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding40%Cold waves22%Tornadoes20%Strong wind6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Fairfield Glade faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 89 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHeat wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Fairfield Glade flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cumberland County.

Disasters that hit Fairfield Glade

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Fairfield GladeDeclared for Cumberland County only

Cumberland County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Fairfield Glade covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fairfield Glade’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fairfield Glade. 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 Fairfield Glade total about $2.2M 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.