Natural hazards · Winding Cypress

Winding Cypress, FL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Winding Cypress comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Winding Cypress?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Winding Cypress to be higher than in 93% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes57%Inland flooding31%Wildfire7%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Winding Cypress faces

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

Hurricanes

57% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Ice stormsWinter weatherAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Winding Cypress flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Winding Cypress.

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Collier County.

Disasters that hit Winding Cypress

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Winding CypressDeclared for Collier County only

Collier County has had 46 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and fires.

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. Winding Cypress 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 Winding Cypress’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Winding Cypress. 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.