Natural hazards · Weston

Weston, CT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Weston comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 78 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Weston?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Weston to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding75%Hurricanes19%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Weston faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Weston flood?

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

78paid claims since 1980

$1.3Mpaid to owners

16homes flooded more than once

19802026

Biggest named events

March 2010 Nor'easter: 7 claims, $92K
Hurricane Ida: 2 claims, $19K
Not a named storm: 2 claims, $11K

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Weston 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 Weston

Weston and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fairfieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Westonmostly inland floodingHigh

Westportmostly inland floodingHigh

Wiltonmostly inland floodingModerate

Reddingmostly inland floodingModerate

Eastonmostly 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. Weston covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Weston’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Weston. 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 Weston total about $7.0M 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.