Natural hazards · Berwyn Heights

Berwyn Heights, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Berwyn Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1993. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Berwyn Heights?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Berwyn Heights to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding60%Heat waves9%Tornadoes8%Hurricanes7%Earthquakes6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Berwyn Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 3% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Berwyn Heights flood?

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

3paid claims since 1993

$4Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Prince George's County.

Disasters that hit Berwyn Heights

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Berwyn HeightsDeclared for Prince George's County only

2016

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$16K to the Town of Berwyn Heights for repairs

2010

Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorms

$20K to the Town of Berwyn Heights for repairs

2003

Hurricane Isabel

1 household applied for aid $8K to the Town of Berwyn Heights for repairs

2003

Snow

$8K to the Town of Berwyn Heights for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Storm

$3K to the Town of Berwyn Heights for repairs

Prince George's County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Berwyn Heights

Berwyn Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Berwyn Heightsmostly inland floodingVery low

Greenbeltmostly inland floodingVery low

College Parkmostly 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. Berwyn Heights covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Berwyn Heights’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Berwyn Heights. 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 Berwyn Heights total about $565K 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.