Campbell's Covered Bridge · Photo: P. Hughes · CC BY-SA 4.0On FEMA’s figures, Tigerville faces less hazard damage per building than 69% of U.S. towns, mostly from river and rain flooding
On FEMA’s National Risk Index, Tigerville gets a B+ for hazard risk: lower expected damage per building than 69% of U.S. towns. Most of that expected damage is river and rain flooding (80%). FEMA’s files show no paid flood insurance claims here.
Graded on FEMA’s expected yearly building damage per dollar of building value (NRI v1.20, December 2025), weighted by where residents live; flood claims are shown, not graded. How hazard risk is graded
What Tigerville 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
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.
What’s behind Tigerville’s grade
River and rain flooding is 80% of the building damage FEMA expects in Tigerville, and Tigerville’s rate of river and rain flooding damage is higher than 50% of U.S. census tracts. Ice storms add 5%, at a rate in the top 5% of U.S. census tracts.
B+ lower expected damage per building than 69% of U.S. towns (21,298).
Tigerville’s residents live in 2 census tracts; FEMA’s figures are combined by where they live.
In dollars, FEMA expects about $306K a year in losses across Tigerville: $196K to buildings, the rest to people and crops.
Does Tigerville flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Tigerville. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Tigerville isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Greenville County.1 federal disaster brought FEMA money to Tigerville
Disasters that paid out in Tigerville itself (aid to households or repair grants to Tigerville), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2024Hurricane Helene4 households applied for aid$3K aid approved
Greenville County has had 16 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often hurricanes and tropical storms, then winter storms. Not counted: the 2005 Hurricane Katrina evacuee emergency, which covered counties that took in evacuees.
Also 2 FEMA wildfire suppression grants (Fire Management Assistance, not a disaster declaration) for fires in Greenville County, 2016–2025.
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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.
- 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.
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Questions about natural hazards in Tigerville
Is Tigerville at risk for natural disasters?
On FEMA’s National Risk Index, Tigerville has lower expected damage per building than 69% of U.S. towns: B+ for hazard risk. Most of the expected damage is river and rain flooding (80%) and tornadoes (6%). This is FEMA’s model of an average year for today’s buildings, not a forecast.
Is Tigerville 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 Greenville County, 45% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 0.6% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Tigerville?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Tigerville’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 Tigerville?
By FEMA money that reached Tigerville, Hurricane Helene (2024): 4 households applied for aid, $3K approved.
Is Tigerville at risk from river and rain flooding?
It is the largest share of the building damage FEMA expects here (80%), and Tigerville’s rate for it is higher than 50% of U.S. census tracts.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Tigerville.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Tigerville’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.