Natural hazards · Pomfret

Pomfret, CT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pomfret comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2000.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pomfret?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pomfret to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding68%Hurricanes22%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Pomfret faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% 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 Pomfret flood?

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

4paid claims since 2000

$134Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20002026

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Pomfret 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 Pomfret

Pomfret and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Putnammostly inland floodingHigh

Killinglymostly inland floodingHigh

Eastfordmostly inland floodingHigh

Brooklynmostly inland floodingModerate

Pomfretmostly inland floodingModerate

Woodstockmostly inland floodingModerate

Hamptonmostly 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. Pomfret covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pomfret’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Pomfret. 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 Pomfret total about $1.6M 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.