North Carolina

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$383.6B

Total Economic Impact

100

Counties

66.53

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 100 counties

Hurricane

77.99 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

72.43 Avg Risk Score

Ice Storm

67.75 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

67.62 Avg Risk Score

Drought

65.87 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

64.87 Avg Risk Score

Tornado

64.24 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

64.23 Avg Risk Score

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

severe-storm 29 events

$48.4B

tropical-cyclone 19 events

$295.2B

winter-storm 9 events

$13.1B

drought 7 events

$22.6B

freeze 2 events

$3.0B

wildfire 1 events

$1.2B

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	New Hanover	98.5	Relatively High	42.9%
2	Onslow	97.93	Relatively High	79.5%
3	Carteret	97.1	Relatively High	38.9%
4	Brunswick	97.04	Relatively High	22.8%
5	Craven	96.4	Relatively High	81.3%
6	Dare	95.48	Relatively High	20.7%
7	Beaufort	94.5	Relatively Moderate	80.7%
8	Wayne	94.43	Relatively Moderate	95.6%
9	Robeson	94.37	Relatively Moderate	99.6%
10	Pitt	94.24	Relatively Moderate	90.0%