Natural hazards · Glasgow

Glasgow, DE natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glasgow comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1991.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glasgow?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glasgow to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding77%Cold waves5%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Glasgow faces

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

Inland flooding

77% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Cold waves

5% 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 Glasgow flood?

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

6paid claims since 1991

$38Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19912026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Floyd: 1 claim, $159
Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $2K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Glasgow 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 Glasgow

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlasgowDeclared 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. Glasgow covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Glasgow’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Glasgow. 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 Glasgow total about $8.4M 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.