Deweyville Swing Bridge · Photo: Patrick Feller · CC BY 2.0Storms, floods and disasters in Deweyville
Deweyville isn’t graded for hazard risk: Deweyville has 357 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more.
What Deweyville faces
Each hazard’s share of the building damage FEMA expects here, and how its rate compares with the rest of the country.
Hurricanes
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 Deweyville flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Deweyville. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Deweyville isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Newton County.6 federal disasters brought FEMA money to Deweyville
Disasters that paid out in Deweyville itself (aid to households or repair grants to Deweyville), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2024Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding10 households applied for aid$25K aid approved
- 2021Severe Winter Storms2 households applied for aid$8K aid approved
- 2017Hurricane Harvey187 households applied for aid$974K aid approved
- 2016Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding338 households applied for aid$5.1M aid approved
- 2008Hurricane Ike196 households applied for aid$79K aid approved
- 2005Hurricane Rita701 households applied for aid$2.2M aid approved
Newton County has had 23 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often severe storms, then hurricanes and tropical storms. Not counted: the 2005 Hurricane Katrina evacuee emergency, which covered counties that took in evacuees.
Also 1 FEMA wildfire suppression grant (Fire Management Assistance, not a disaster declaration) for fires in Newton County, 2000–2000.
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Add to the Deweyville archive →Get ready for what Deweyville faces
A short kit for the hazards that drive the building damage here, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- The season runs June through November and peaks from mid-August to mid-October.
- Bring in porch furniture and anything the wind can throw.
- Fill the gas tank and charge phones before the storm arrives.
- 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 Deweyville
Is Deweyville 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 Newton County, 28% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 4.5% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Deweyville?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Deweyville’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 Deweyville?
By FEMA money that reached Deweyville, Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding (2016): 338 households applied for aid, $5.1M approved.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Deweyville.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Deweyville’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.