Natural hazards · Newport

Newport, KY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Newport comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 15 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Newport?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Newport to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding63%Tornadoes16%Cold waves8%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Newport faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Newport flood?

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

15paid claims since 1980

$203Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19802026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

🏷️ 05% off flood insurance. Newport is in FEMA’s Community Rating System (class 9) for its flood-proofing work.

Insurance rates: Campbell County.

Disasters that hit Newport

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NewportDeclared for Campbell County only

Campbell County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Newport

Newport and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Covingtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Newportmostly inland floodingHigh

Southgatemostly inland floodingModerate

Bellevuemostly inland floodingLow

Fort Thomasmostly inland floodingLow

Cincinnatimostly inland floodingLow

Wildermostly inland floodingVery low

Woodlawnmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Newport covers 6 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Newport’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Newport. 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 Newport total about $4.8M 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.