Natural hazards · Braddock Heights

Braddock Heights, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Braddock Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Braddock Heights?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Braddock Heights to be higher than in 4% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding62%Tornadoes7%Heat waves7%Hurricanes6%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Braddock Heights 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

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Braddock Heights flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Braddock Heights.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Braddock 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: Frederick County.

Disasters that hit Braddock Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Braddock HeightsDeclared for Frederick County only

Frederick County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

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