Natural hazards · Glen Burnie

Glen Burnie, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glen Burnie comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 27 claims here since 1979. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glen Burnie?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glen Burnie to be higher than in 2% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding39%Heat waves12%Tornadoes11%Hurricanes11%Earthquakes8%Strong wind6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Glen Burnie faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 4% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Glen Burnie flood?

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

27paid claims since 1979

$318Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Isabel: 7 claims, $104K
Hurricane Sandy: 1 claim, $2K
Mid-spring storms: 1 claim, $7K

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Glen Burnie 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 Glen Burnie

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Glen Burnie itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Glen Burnie.

Brought FEMA money into Glen BurnieDeclared for Anne Arundel County only

2003

Hurricane Isabel

109 households applied for aid $308K aid approved

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

Around Glen Burnie

Glen Burnie and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brooklyn Parkmostly inland floodingVery low

Baltimoremostly inland floodingVery low

Severna Parkmostly inland floodingVery low

Severnmostly inland floodingVery low

Glen Burniemostly inland floodingVery low

Pasadenamostly inland floodingVery low

Ferndalemostly 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. Glen Burnie covers 20 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Glen Burnie’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Glen Burnie. 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 Glen Burnie total about $7.4M 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.