Storms, floods and disasters in Hazel Green
Hazel Green isn’t graded for hazard risk: Hazel Green has 33 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more.
What Hazel Green faces
Each hazard’s share of the building damage FEMA expects here, and how its rate compares with the rest of the country.
River and rain flooding
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 Hazel Green flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Hazel Green. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
3 federal disasters brought FEMA money to Hazel Green
Disasters that paid out in Hazel Green itself (aid to households or repair grants to Hazel Green), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2012Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds and Flooding85 households applied for aid$17K aid approved
- 2004Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding, and Mudslides26 households applied for aid$31K aid approved
- 2003Severe Winter Ice and Snow Storms, Heavy Rain, Flooding, Tornadoes, and Mud and2 households applied for aid$625 aid approved
Wolfe County has had 28 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Questions about natural hazards in Hazel Green
Is Hazel Green 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.
How much is flood insurance in Hazel Green?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Hazel Green’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 Hazel Green?
By FEMA money that reached Hazel Green, Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding, and Mudslides (2004): 26 households applied for aid, $31K approved.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Hazel Green.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Hazel Green’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.