Natural hazards · Fairmount Heights

Fairmount Heights, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fairmount Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fairmount Heights?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fairmount Heights to be higher than in 7% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding47%Heat waves14%Tornadoes12%Hurricanes8%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Fairmount Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 16% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

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

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Fairmount Heights flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Fairmount 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 Fairmount Heights

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

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

2010

Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorms

$3K to the Town of Fairmount Heights for repairs

2003

Hurricane Isabel

$4K to the Town of Fairmount Heights for repairs

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

Around Fairmount Heights

Fairmount Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fairmount Heightsmostly inland floodingVery low

Cedar Heightsmostly inland floodingVery low

Seat Pleasantmostly 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. Fairmount Heights covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fairmount Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Fairmount 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 Fairmount Heights total about $270K 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.