Natural hazards · Ellington

Ellington, CT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ellington comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1982.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Ellington?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ellington to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding77%Hurricanes9%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Ellington faces

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

Inland flooding

77% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% 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 Ellington flood?

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

5paid claims since 1982

$31Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19822026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ida: 1 claim, $6K
Not a named storm: 1 claim, $174

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Ellington 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 Ellington

Ellington and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Vernonmostly inland floodingHigh

Staffordmostly inland floodingHigh

Willingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Ellingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

South Windsormostly inland floodingModerate

Somersmostly inland floodingLow

East Windsormostly inland floodingLow

Tollandmostly 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. Ellington covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Ellington’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Ellington. 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 Ellington total about $5.0M 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.