Natural hazards · Mansfield

Mansfield, CT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mansfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 37 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mansfield?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mansfield to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding69%Hurricanes9%Cold waves6%Earthquakes6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Mansfield faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% 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

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Mansfield flood?

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

37paid claims since 1978

$771Kpaid to owners

3homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 9 claims, $108K
Hurricane Ida: 1 claim, $4K
Hurricane Elsa: 1 claim, $55K

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: .

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1homes raised above flood level

Around Mansfield

Mansfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Windhammostly inland floodingHigh

Chaplinmostly inland floodingHigh

Willingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Coventrymostly inland floodingModerate

Mansfieldmostly 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. Mansfield covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Mansfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Mansfield. 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 Mansfield total about $5.8M 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.