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Friendly, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Friendly comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2010.

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

How exposed is Friendly?

8
Very low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Friendly to be higher than in 8% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding57%Heat waves9%Tornadoes9%Hurricanes9%Earthquakes6%Everything else10%
By hazard

What Friendly faces

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

Inland flooding

57% of expected damage
Well below average · higher than 19% 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

9% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

9% 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 51% 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 Friendly flood?

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

4paid claims since 2010
$21Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
20102026

Biggest named events

  • Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $4K
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Friendly 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 Friendly

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Prince George's County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Friendly itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into FriendlyDeclared for Prince George's County only
Prince George's County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.
Around Friendly

Friendly and the towns around it

Clinton: Very low, mostly inland floodingOxon Hill: Very low, mostly inland floodingCamp Springs: Very low, mostly inland floodingFort Washington: Very low, mostly inland floodingRosaryville: Very low, mostly inland floodingBrandywine: Very low, mostly inland floodingAccokeek: Very low, mostly inland floodingAndrews AFB: Very low, mostly inland floodingMelwood: Very low, mostly inland floodingForest Heights: Very low, mostly inland floodingTemple Hills: Very low, mostly inland floodingGlassmanor: Very low, mostly inland floodingNational Harbor: Very low, mostly inland floodingMarlow Heights: Very low, mostly inland floodingMorningside: Very low, mostly inland floodingSilver Hill: Very low, mostly inland floodingSuitland: Very low, mostly inland floodingForestville: Very low, mostly inland floodingFriendly: Very low, mostly inland flooding FriendlyClintonOxon HillCamp SpringsFort Washington
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Fort Washingtonmostly inland floodingVery low
Oxon Hillmostly inland floodingVery low
Clintonmostly inland floodingVery low
Friendlymostly inland floodingVery low
Camp Springsmostly 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. Friendly covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Friendly’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Friendly. 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 Friendly total about $811K 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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