Natural hazards · Fort Meade

Fort Meade, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fort Meade 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 Fort Meade?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fort Meade to be higher than in 1% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding37%Heat waves14%Tornadoes13%Hurricanes10%Strong wind6%Cold waves6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Fort Meade faces

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslides

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 Fort Meade flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Fort Meade.

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Anne Arundel County.

Disasters that hit Fort Meade

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Anne Arundel County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Fort Meade itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Fort MeadeDeclared for Anne Arundel County only

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

Around Fort Meade

Fort Meade and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Severnmostly inland floodingVery low

Odentonmostly inland floodingVery low

Fort Meademostly inland floodingVery low

Maryland Citymostly inland floodingVery low

Jessupmostly 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. Fort Meade covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fort Meade’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fort Meade. 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 Fort Meade total about $727K 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.