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Natural hazards · Millville

Millville, MA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Millville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1979. 8 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Millville?

43
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Millville to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding62%Hurricanes21%Cold waves5%Everything else12%
By hazard

What Millville faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

21% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 Millville flood?

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

2paid claims since 1979
$10Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19792026

Biggest named events

  • Not a named storm: 1 claim, $183
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Millville isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Worcester County.
Disasters that hit Millville

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Millville itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Millville.

Brought FEMA money into MillvilleDeclared for Worcester County only
2015

Severe Winter Storm, Snowstorm, and Flooding

$20K to the Town of Millville for repairs
2013

Severe Winter Storm, Snowstorm, and Flooding

$33K to the Town of Millville for repairs
2011

Hurricane Irene

$16K to the Town of Millville for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

20 households applied for aid $25K aid approved $149K to the Town of Millville for repairs
2005

Severe Storms and Flooding

$4K to the Town of Millville for repairs
2005

Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$16K to the Town of Millville for repairs
2003

Snow

$24K to the Town of Millville for repairs
2001

Snow

$9K to the Town of Millville for repairs
Worcester County has had 28 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.
Around Millville

Millville and the towns around it

Blackstone: Moderate, mostly inland floodingUxbridge: Low, mostly inland floodingBellingham: Very low, mostly inland floodingWoonsocket: Moderate, mostly inland floodingDouglas: Low, mostly inland floodingNorthbridge: Low, mostly inland floodingSutton: Very low, mostly inland floodingMillville: Moderate, mostly inland flooding MillvilleBlackstoneUxbridge
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Blackstonemostly inland floodingModerate
Millvillemostly inland floodingModerate
Uxbridgemostly 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. Millville covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Millville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Millville. 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 Millville total about $598K 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.

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