Natural hazards · Kent Acres

Kent Acres, DE natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kent Acres comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kent Acres?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kent Acres to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding51%Cold waves17%Hurricanes13%Earthquakes6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Kent Acres faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Kent Acres flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Kent Acres.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Kent Acres 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 Kent Acres

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Kent AcresDeclared for Kent County only

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

Around Kent Acres

Kent Acres and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Highland Acresmostly inland floodingModerate

Rodney Villagemostly inland floodingModerate

Kent Acresmostly inland floodingLow

Dovermostly inland floodingLow

Camdenmostly 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. Kent Acres is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kent Acres’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Kent Acres. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.