Natural hazards · Brookside

Brookside, DE natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brookside comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 19 claims here since 1994.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brookside?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brookside to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding79%Cold waves6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Brookside 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 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Brookside flood?

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

19paid claims since 1994

$175Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19942026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 5 claims, $52K
Hurricane Floyd: 5 claims, $76K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: New Castle County.

Disasters that hit Brookside

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for New Castle County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Brookside itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into BrooksideDeclared for New Castle County only

New Castle County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

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. Brookside covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Brookside’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Brookside. 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 Brookside total about $5.0M 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.