Natural hazards · Kent

Kent, CT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kent comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 18 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kent?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kent to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding84%Hurricanes9%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Kent faces

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

Inland flooding

84% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Kent flood?

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

18paid claims since 1979

$159Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 2 claims, $3K
Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $27K

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Kent 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 Kent

Kent and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kentmostly inland floodingHigh

New Milfordmostly inland floodingHigh

Cornwallmostly inland floodingHigh

Shermanmostly inland floodingHigh

Washingtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Dovermostly inland floodingModerate

Sharonmostly inland floodingModerate

Warrenmostly 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. Kent covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kent’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Kent. 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 Kent total about $2.3M 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.