Kenwood Estates’s biggest natural hazard is hurricanes
Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kenwood Estates comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.
What stands out about Kenwood Estates’s weather risks
Read from FEMA’s records below. The page puts what stands out first.
Does Kenwood Estates flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Kenwood Estates. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Kenwood Estates isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Palm Beach County.How exposed is Kenwood Estates?
FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings here to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.
Calmer than 775 of the 957 Florida towns we cover.
Kenwood Estates is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.
What Kenwood Estates faces
Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
Hurricanes
Inland flooding
Heat waves
Federal disasters declared here
None of the disasters declared for Palm Beach County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Kenwood Estates itself in FEMA’s records.
Palm Beach County has had 31 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and freezes.
Get ready for what Kenwood Estates actually faces
A short kit for its top hazards, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- The season runs June through November and peaks from mid-August to mid-October.
- Bring in porch furniture and anything the wind can throw.
- Fill the gas tank and charge phones before the storm arrives.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Know the nearest cooling center or air-conditioned library.
- Drink water before you feel thirsty.
- Check on neighbors who live alone.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
Know where neighbors sign up for alerts? Add it to the Handbook so everyone has it.
Kenwood Estates and its neighbors
Kenwood Estates has the lowest rating of the 3 towns around it. Tap a town to see its hazards.
| Town | Rating | Mostly | Flood claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Springs | High | hurricanes | 39 |
| Greenacres | High | hurricanes | 7 |
| Kenwood Estates | High | hurricanes | 0 |
Rating = expected yearly storm and flood damage as a share of what’s there, vs. U.S. communities. Flood claims = paid federal flood insurance claims on record.
Most disasters here begin in August–October
The month each of Palm Beach County’s 31 declared disasters began, since 1953.
What these numbers can and can’t tell you
- An average, not a forecast. FEMA’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 there, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings.
- Money that reached town. Flood claims are matched to Kenwood Estates’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Kenwood Estates.
- It follows property value. FEMA’s model weighs damage to buildings, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Kenwood Estates.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. An average of past damage, not a forecast.