Natural hazards · Easton

Easton, CT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Easton comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 13 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Easton?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Easton to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding56%Hurricanes32%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Easton faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

32% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% 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 Easton flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Easton, from FEMA’s records.

13paid claims since 1978

$225Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 1 claim, $4K
Hurricane Sandy: 1 claim, $21K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Easton 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 Easton

Easton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fairfieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Westonmostly inland floodingHigh

Reddingmostly inland floodingModerate

Trumbullmostly inland floodingModerate

Eastonmostly inland floodingLow

Monroemostly inland floodingLow

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. Easton covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Easton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Easton. 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 Easton total about $2.5M 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.