Natural hazards · Gilt Edge

Gilt Edge, TN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Gilt Edge?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Gilt Edge to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and tornadoes.

Earthquakes34%Tornadoes22%Inland flooding18%Cold waves12%Heat waves8%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Gilt Edge faces

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

Earthquakes

34% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 48 years in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Gilt Edge flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tipton County.

Disasters that hit Gilt Edge

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Gilt EdgeDeclared for Tipton County only

Tipton County has had 20 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. Gilt Edge 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 Gilt Edge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Gilt Edge. 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.