Photo: Brian Stansberry (photographer) · CC BY 4.0Storms, floods and disasters in Greenway
Greenway isn’t graded for hazard risk: Greenway has 261 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1998.
What Greenway faces
Each hazard’s share of the building damage FEMA expects here, and how its rate compares with the rest of the country.
Earthquakes
River and rain flooding
Tornadoes
Shares are of FEMA’s expected building damage, the measure the grade uses; ranks compare each hazard’s building-damage rate with all 85,154 U.S. census tracts. In FEMA’s terms, river and rain flooding is FEMA’s “Inland Flooding” (rivers and streams overflowing their banks, or rain overwhelming drainage). FEMA defines coastal flooding as high or rising tides and storm surge, so surge damage is counted there. Drought isn’t listed: FEMA counts its losses in crops only.
Does Greenway flood? Rarely: 1 flood claim since 1998
Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Greenway, from FEMA’s records.
Greenway isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Clay County.3 federal disasters brought FEMA money to Greenway
Disasters that paid out in Greenway itself (aid to households or repair grants to the City of Greenway), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2010Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorms$6K to the City of Greenway for repairs
- 2009Severe Winter Storm$43K to the City of Greenway for repairs
- 2003Snow$3K to the City of Greenway for repairs
Clay County has had 20 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often severe storms, then floods. Not counted: the 2005 Hurricane Katrina evacuee emergency, which covered counties that took in evacuees.
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A short kit for the hazards that drive the building damage here, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Drop, cover and hold on.
- Strap tall furniture and the water heater to the wall.
- Know how to shut off the gas.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Pick your spot now: the lowest floor, an inside room, no windows.
- A watch means be ready; a warning means take cover now.
- Keep shoes and a flashlight by the bed.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
Know where neighbors sign up for alerts? Add it to the Handbook so everyone has it.
Questions about natural hazards in Greenway
Does Greenway flood?
Flood insurance has paid 1 claim in Greenway since 1998, $1K in all.
Is Greenway in a flood zone?
Flood zones are drawn street by street, so the answer depends on the address: look it up on FEMA’s flood map. In Clay County, 8% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 1.2% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Greenway?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Greenway’s flood program. Premiums depend on the building; policies usually start 30 days after you buy, so get a quote early.
What was the biggest storm in Greenway?
By FEMA money that reached Greenway, Severe Winter Storm (2009): $43K to the City of Greenway for repairs.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Greenway.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Greenway’s residents lived in the 2020 census; 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. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. FEMA’s model is an average of expected damage, not a forecast. How hazard risk is graded.