Natural hazards · Nixon

Nixon, TN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Nixon comes from cold waves, 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 Nixon?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Nixon to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves29%Inland flooding24%Earthquakes13%Tornadoes12%Strong wind11%Landslides5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Nixon faces

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

Cold waves

29% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Landslides

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLightningDrought

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 Nixon flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hardin County.

Disasters that hit Nixon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NixonDeclared for Hardin County only

Hardin County has had 24 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. Nixon 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 Nixon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Nixon. 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.