Natural hazards · Halls

Halls, TN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Halls comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 46 claims here since 1982.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Halls?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Halls to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding50%Earthquakes22%Tornadoes14%Cold waves7%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Halls faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

22% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

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 Halls flood?

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

46paid claims since 1982

$410Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19822026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Knox County.

Disasters that hit Halls

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HallsDeclared for Knox County only

Knox County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Halls

Halls and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hallsmostly inland floodingModerate

Knoxvillemostly 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. Halls covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Halls’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Halls. 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 Halls total about $4.7M 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.