Natural hazards · Newtown

Newtown, CT natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Newtown?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Newtown to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding47%Hurricanes35%Earthquakes7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Newtown faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 11% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

35% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Newtown flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: .

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. Newtown covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Newtown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Newtown. 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 Newtown total about $620K 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.