Natural hazards · Dover Base Housing

Dover Base Housing, DE natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dover Base Housing comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dover Base Housing?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dover Base Housing to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding49%Cold waves23%Hurricanes11%Heat waves6%Tornadoes5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Dover Base Housing faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

23% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 4% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Dover Base Housing flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Dover Base Housing.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kent County.

Disasters that hit Dover Base Housing

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Kent County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Dover Base Housing itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Dover Base HousingDeclared for Kent County only

Kent County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Dover Base Housing

Dover Base Housing and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Dover Base Housingmostly inland floodingModerate

Rising Sun-Lebanonmostly inland floodingLow

Dovermostly 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. Dover Base Housing covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dover Base Housing’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dover Base Housing. 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 Dover Base Housing total about $682K 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.