Natural hazards · Danielson

Danielson, CT natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Danielson?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Danielson to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding75%Hurricanes15%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Danielson faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

15% 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 windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Danielson flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Danielson 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 Danielson

Danielson and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Danielsonmostly inland floodingHigh

Killinglymostly inland floodingHigh

Brooklynmostly 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. Danielson is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

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

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.