Natural hazards · Salisbury

Salisbury, CT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Salisbury comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1984.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Salisbury?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding79%Hurricanes11%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Salisbury faces

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

Inland flooding

79% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 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 Salisbury flood?

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

5paid claims since 1984

$37Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19842026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $16K

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Salisbury 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 Salisbury

Salisbury and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

North Canaanmostly inland floodingHigh

Canaanmostly inland floodingHigh

Sharonmostly inland floodingModerate

Salisburymostly inland floodingModerate

North Eastmostly inland floodingModerate

Mount Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Sheffieldmostly 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. Salisbury covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Salisbury’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Salisbury. 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 Salisbury total about $2.4M 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.