Georgia

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$306.3B

Total Economic Impact

159

Counties

45.74

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 159 counties

Hurricane

68.42 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

61.18 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

60.04 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

57.88 Avg Risk Score

Drought

56.55 Avg Risk Score

Hail

54.83 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

54.74 Avg Risk Score

Tornado

53.97 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

severe-storm 50 events

$98.9B

tropical-cyclone 13 events

$121.5B

drought 10 events

$63.6B

winter-storm 7 events

$12.1B

flooding 4 events

$7.2B

freeze 2 events

$3.0B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Chatham	98.66	Relatively High	80.5%
2	Liberty	94.11	Relatively Moderate	90.1%
3	Fulton	92.3	Relatively Moderate	66.0%
4	Cobb	92.2	Relatively Moderate	39.9%
5	Gwinnett	91.44	Relatively Moderate	64.3%
6	Glynn	90.8	Relatively Moderate	77.4%
7	DeKalb	89.63	Relatively Moderate	79.0%
8	Bulloch	89.21	Relatively Moderate	83.7%
9	Richmond	88.74	Relatively Moderate	95.1%
10	Bryan	87.53	Relatively Moderate	31.1%