Natural hazards · Canterbury

Canterbury, CT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Canterbury comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Canterbury?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Canterbury to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding64%Hurricanes24%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Canterbury faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Canterbury flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Canterbury.

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Canterbury isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: .

Around Canterbury

Canterbury and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Plainfieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Brooklynmostly inland floodingModerate

Scotlandmostly inland floodingModerate

Canterburymostly inland floodingModerate

Hamptonmostly inland floodingModerate

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Canterbury covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Canterbury’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Canterbury. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Canterbury total about $1.3M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); 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. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.