Storm risk in Richmond County, Georgia

FEMA's overall hazard score for Richmond County is 87.40 (Relatively Moderate), 397th of 3,144 counties. Hail scores 81.08 (Relatively Moderate), strong wind 97.68 (Relatively High) and tornado 95.2 (Relatively High). Expected hail loss is $8.58 per $1 million of buildings a year; NOAA logged 28 hail reports in Richmond County from 2014 to June 2026.

FEMA National Risk Index, version December 2025, retrieved October 8, 2026. NOAA hail reports 2014 to June 2026.

Richmond County: expected yearly loss per $1 million of buildings for hail, strong wind and tornado, on a log scale, against all U.S. counties and the counties of GA$0.1$1$10$100$1,000Hail: $8.58 per $1 million, 2,188th of 3,126 rated counties$8.58Hail2,188th of 3,126 countiesStrong wind: $21 per $1 million, 1,519th of 3,121 rated counties$21Strong wind1,519th of 3,121 countiesTornado: $252 per $1 million, 1,267th of 3,144 rated counties$252Tornado1,267th of 3,144 counties
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Expected yearly loss per $1 million of buildings, log scale. Dot colour is FEMA’s rating band. The tornado lane counts everything exposed, not only buildings.

How FEMA rates Richmond County

HazardRatingScore (0 to 100)Rank in U.S.Rank in GA
OverallRelatively Moderate 87.40397 of 3,1446 of 159
HailRelatively Moderate 81.08596 of 3,12612 of 159
Strong windRelatively High 97.6874 of 3,1261 of 159
TornadoRelatively High 95.20152 of 3,1266 of 159

Expected yearly loss, in dollars

HazardThis county, total a yearPer $1M of buildingsState median countyU.S. median countyRank per $1M, U.S.Rank per $1M, state
Hail$351,301$8.58 $13$22 2,188 of 3,126115 of 159
Strong wind$872,979$21 $13$20 1,519 of 3,12127 of 159
Tornado$10,315,606$252 $209$199 1,267 of 3,14457 of 159

Rank 1 is the highest. Overall, hail and wind losses count buildings; the tornado row counts everything FEMA exposes, so it overstates building damage. Expected annual loss is an average over many years for the whole county, not a forecast for one roof.

What stands out in Richmond County

  • FEMA expects hail in Richmond County to cost $8.58 per $1 million of buildings a year: 0.38 times the U.S. median and 0.64 times the GA county median, ranked 2,188th of 3,126 counties nationally and 115th of 159 in Georgia.
  • FEMA expects strong wind in Richmond County to cost $21 per $1 million of buildings a year: 1.05 times the U.S. median and 1.59 times the GA county median, ranked 1,519th of 3,121 counties nationally and 27th of 159 in Georgia.
  • FEMA expects tornado in Richmond County to cost $252 per $1 million of buildings a year: 1.27 times the U.S. median and 1.20 times the GA county median, ranked 1,267th of 3,144 counties nationally and 57th of 159 in Georgia.
  • Applying FEMA's estimate to a $163,300 home, the average yearly loss in Richmond County is about $1.40 for hail and $3.48 for wind before any deductible; at the U.S. median county rates it would be $3.65 and $3.33.
  • If the next years look like 2014 to 2025, a roof kept 20 years in Richmond County meets about 11.7 hail days of 1 inch or more; the median county in NOAA's file (1,275 counties) would give 35.0.
  • Built in 1980, the median home in Richmond County is 46 years old, so an original roof has outlived a 3-tab shingle (15 to 20 years) and an architectural one (25 to 30 years); 79.3% of its 92,652 homes are at least 26 years old.
  • March to June holds 20 of the 28 hail reports in Richmond County (71 percent); the quietest month is January, with 0 reports.

What hail and wind cost a home here in an average year

Enter a home value. The calculator applies Richmond County’s own loss rate: the county’s expected yearly loss divided by the value of its buildings. It starts at the Census median home value for the county.

$1.40hail, a year; $3.65 at the U.S. median county rate
$3.48strong wind, a year; $3.33 at the U.S. median county rate
$98hail and wind together over 20 years, at today’s rate

Formula: home value × Richmond County yearly loss ÷ building value. Hail: $351,301 ÷ $40,928,084,497 = 0.0000086. Wind: $872,979 ÷ $40,928,084,497 = 0.0000213. This is FEMA’s estimate of average damage to buildings and does not account for your deductible. Tornado is left out because FEMA’s tornado loss counts people and other exposure, not only buildings.

Read this as a yardstick. The rate is an average over every building in the county, from sheds to office towers, and over many years. Real losses come in rare, large storms; a roof with no damage in 19 years can need full replacement in the 20th. The figure is not a quote and not a prediction for one address.

Richmond County in plain numbers

  • Richmond County scores 87.40 in FEMA's overall hazard index (Relatively Moderate): 397th of 3,144 rated counties and 6th of 159 in Georgia.
  • Hail scores 81.08 (Relatively Moderate). FEMA expects $351,301 of hail damage to buildings in Richmond County a year, which is $8.58 per $1 million of buildings, 0.38 times the U.S. median.
  • Strong wind scores 97.68 (Relatively High) with $872,979 of expected yearly building loss in Richmond County: $21 per $1 million of buildings, 1.05 times the U.S. median.
  • Tornado scores 95.2 (Relatively High) and FEMA's expected yearly tornado loss is $10,315,606, counting everything exposed, or $252 per $1 million of buildings in Richmond County.
  • FEMA's own event record for Richmond County averages 2.86 hail events and 4.16 strong-wind events a year.
  • NOAA logged 28 hail reports in Richmond County between 2014 and June 2026, on 8 days with stones of 1 inch or more; the largest was 2 inches.
  • In Richmond County, FEMA counts buildings worth 40.93 billion dollars and 206,329 residents.
  • Social vulnerability is Relatively High in Richmond County.
  • Community resilience there is Relatively Moderate, for 206,329 residents.
  • 1 city in Richmond County is covered on this site: Augusta. 9 Census ZIP areas have more than half of their land in the county.
  • Our guide range for a 2,000 sq ft asphalt roof in Augusta is $6,020 to $13,330.
  • Richmond County ranks 141 of the 194 counties with a page here for hail loss per $1 million of buildings, 56 for wind and 83 for tornado.
  • In Richmond County, May is the busiest month with 7 of the 28 reports (25 percent), against 0 reports in November.
  • Richmond County's worst year was 2022, with 2 hail days at 1 inch or more and 6 reports. At the 2014 to 2025 pace that is 0.58 such days a year, one about every 20.6 months.
  • The median home in Richmond County was built in 1980; 50.0% of its 92,652 housing units date from before 1980, 79.3% from before 2000 and 11.7% from 2010 on.
  • Census puts the median home value in Richmond County at $163,300, and 51.4% of homes are lived in by their owners.
  • 5,564 single-family building permits were issued in Richmond County from 2014 to 2025, about 60.1 per 1,000 homes, peaking in 2021.
  • The fastest gust in NOAA's records for Richmond County is 100 mph on April 3, 2017 at Augusta Daniel Arpt.
  • The nearest county with a page here is Clarke County, 83 miles from the centre of Richmond County; its hail score is 78.75.
  • Across counties the median is one roofing firm for every 5,189 homes; Census counted 7 roofing contractor establishments in Richmond County in 2023, one for every 13,236 homes.

The hail record of Richmond County, year by year

NOAA logged 28 reports in Richmond County; hail of 1 inch or more fell on 8 days. That is 0.6 such days a year; the median county in NOAA’s file has 1.8.

Richmond County: NOAA hail reports per year, 2014 to June 2026, with the number of days that had hail of 1 inch or more024682014: 1 reports, 1 days at 1 inch or more, largest 1.75 inch142015: 0 reports, 0 days at 1 inch or more, largest 0 inch152016: 2 reports, 0 days at 1 inch or more, largest 0.75 inch162017: 1 reports, 1 days at 1 inch or more, largest 1 inch172018: 7 reports, 1 days at 1 inch or more, largest 1.25 inch182019: 1 reports, 0 days at 1 inch or more, largest 0.88 inch192020: 1 reports, 0 days at 1 inch or more, largest 0.25 inch202021: 1 reports, 0 days at 1 inch or more, largest 0.25 inch212022: 6 reports, 2 days at 1 inch or more, largest 2 inch222023: 5 reports, 2 days at 1 inch or more, largest 1 inch232024: 2 reports, 0 days at 1 inch or more, largest 0.88 inch242025: 0 reports, 0 days at 1 inch or more, largest 0 inch252026: 1 reports, 1 days at 1 inch or more, largest 1 inch26*
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  • * 2026 runs to June only
Richmond County: NOAA hail reports by calendar month, 2014 to June 2026January: 0 reports0JanFebruary: 0 reports0FebMarch: 5 reports5MarApril: 1 reports1AprMay: 7 reports7MayJune: 7 reports7JunJuly: 3 reports3JulAugust: 1 reports1AugSeptember: 4 reports4SepOctober: 0 reports0OctNovember: 0 reports0NovDecember: 0 reports0Dec

Reports by calendar month, all years together. Peak: May, 7 reports.

The same numbers as a table (years with at least one report)
YearReportsDays, 1 inch or moreDays, 1.75 inch or moreLargest stoneDamage reported
20141111.75 in–
20162000.75 in–
20171101 in–
20187101.25 in$200
20191000.88 in$100
20201000.25 in$10
20211000.25 in$10
20226212 in–
20235201 in$100
20242000.88 in–
2026 (to June)1101 in–

Biggest hail days in Richmond County

DateLargest stoneReports that dayDamage reportedNear
May 6, 20222 in2none recordedNational Hills
September 17, 20141.75 in1none recordedMc Bean
March 16, 20221.25 in4none recordedNational Hills
June 11, 20181.25 in3none recordedGracewood
July 2, 20231 in2none recordedNeco

Where large hail was reported

FEMA scores the county as a whole. NOAA’s reports show where inside Richmond County the big stones fell.

Reported hail locations, Richmond County

1 in hail1 in hail1 in hail1 in hail1 in hail1 in hail1 in hail1 in hail1.25 in hail1.25 in hail1.25 in hail1.75 in hail2 in hail Augusta
  • 111 to 1.74 in
  • 21.75 to 2.74 in, golf ball to tennis ball
  • 02.75 in and up, baseball

Largest plotted stone: 2 in. Bigger dots are bigger stones.

13 reports of 1 inch or larger have coordinates. Each dot is a reported location, not a storm path.

Sources: NOAA, Census county outline

Wind and tornado records for Richmond County

Fastest gusts in Richmond County

DateGustNear
April 3, 2017100 mphAugusta Daniel Arpt
April 3, 2017100 mphAugusta Daniel Arpt
March 20, 2018100 mphNeco
July 5, 201675 mphAugusta

How old the roofs are

Census counts homes by the decade they were built. Under each bar is the number of hail days of 1 inch or more that an original roof from that decade has met, at Richmond County’s 2014 to 2025 pace of 0.58 such days a year. Most roofs have been replaced since; the row shows what a roof that never was would have taken.

Richmond County: share of homes by decade built, with the hail days at 1 inch or more that an original roof from each decade has met at the county's 2014 to 2025 ratepre-1940: 7.7% of homes7.7%<1940531940s: 4.0% of homes4%1940s471950s: 10.5% of homes10.5%1950s411960s: 11.8% of homes11.8%1960s361970s: 16.0% of homes16%1970s301980s: 15.5% of homes15.5%1980s241990s: 13.8% of homes13.8%1990s182000s: 9.0% of homes9%2000s122010s: 10.4% of homes10.4%2010s62020+: 1.3% of homes1.3%2020+2

Bars: share of 92,652 housing units by decade built. Figures under the decade: hail days met by an original roof, at the county’s 2014 to 2025 pace. The pace of earlier years is unknown.

Median year built1980
Built before 198050.0%
Built before 200079.3%
Built since 201011.7%
Owner-occupied51.4%
Median home value$163,300
Single-family permits, 2014 to 20255,564
Permits per 1,000 homes60.1

Asphalt shingles are rated 15 to 20 years (3-tab) and 25 to 30 years (architectural). Source: Census ACS 2019 to 2023 and Building Permits Survey.

Roofers and past disasters in Richmond County

Roofing firms in Richmond County

Roofing contractor establishments, 20237
Change since 2016+2 (+40%)
Homes per roofing firm13,236
Median across counties5,189
Employees, 202342

Source for Richmond County: Census County Business Patterns, NAICS 238160.

Nearby counties

The closest counties that have a risk page, by distance between county centres. Loss is per $1 million of buildings; the columns marked "times here" divide the neighbour's loss by Richmond County's.

CountyMilesOverallHail lossHail, times hereWind lossWind, times hereNOAA hail reports
Clarke County, GA83 Relatively Low $273.10$7.700.3611
Bibb County, GA101 Relatively Low $182.06$100.475
Houston County, GA110 Relatively Low $131.52$100.4813
Chatham County, GA113 Relatively High $3.510.41$1.590.0737
Cobb County, GA146 Relatively High $354.08$4.670.2226
Muscogee County, GA172 Relatively Moderate $141.58$4.340.2014

More Georgia counties, nearest first

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Cities and ZIP areas in Richmond County

1 city in this county is on PickARoofer. ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are Census shapes that approximate ZIP codes; where we have a city’s ZIPs, the share is the part of each area’s land that lies in this county. 9 such areas have more than half their land here.

CityZIP areas (share of land in the county)Pages
Augusta 30901 (100%), 30904 (100%), 30906 (100%), 30907 (22%), 30909 (98%) Roofers

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Questions

How high is storm risk in Richmond County?

FEMA's National Risk Index gives Richmond County an overall score of 87.40 (Relatively Moderate), 397th of 3,144. Hail scores 81.08 (Relatively Moderate), strong wind 97.68 (Relatively High) and tornado 95.2 (Relatively High).

In Richmond County, how many hail reports has NOAA logged?

A report is one entry for one storm in one county, so counts follow where people live as well as where hail fell. NOAA has 28 for Richmond County between 2014 and June 2026, on 8 days with hail of 1 inch or more; the largest stone was 2 inches.

What do hail and wind cost a home in Richmond County each year, on average?

Applying FEMA's county rates to its median home value of $163,300: FEMA's estimate is about $1.40 a year for hail and $3.48 for wind, before any deductible, against $3.65 and $3.33 at the U.S. median county rates. This is an average over many years and all buildings, not a prediction for one roof; one bad storm costs far more than the average year.

How does Richmond County compare with the rest of Georgia?

Per $1 million of buildings Richmond County loses $8.58 to hail a year, against $13 in the median county of the state. Among 159 rated counties it is 12th for hail, 1st for strong wind and 6th for tornado.

How old are the roofs in Richmond County?

The median home was built in 1980, 46 years ago, and 79.3% of the 92,652 housing units in Richmond County date from before 2000. Asphalt shingles are rated 15 to 20 years (3-tab) or 25 to 30 years (architectural), so an original roof of either kind is past its rated life. The Census does not record when a roof was replaced.

What does expected annual loss mean?

It is FEMA's estimate of the average yearly loss from a hazard, in dollars, summed over the county. It is built for comparing counties at planning level, not for pricing one house.

Does a high rating mean my roof will be damaged?

No. The index compares counties and cannot say what will happen on your street. After a storm, a roof inspection is the only way to know.

Sources for Richmond County: FEMA National Risk Index, version December 2025, retrieved October 8, 2026; NOAA Storm Events Database hail reports for Richmond County; Census Bureau ZCTA-to-county relationship file (2020); Census ACS and Building Permits Survey, homes in Richmond County; Census County Business Patterns, roofing firms in Richmond County. Planning-level information about Richmond County, not an inspection and not insurance advice.

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