Natural hazards · Huntingtown

Huntingtown, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Huntingtown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2006. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Huntingtown?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Huntingtown to be higher than in 12% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding44%Hurricanes21%Heat waves8%Drought6%Strong wind6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Huntingtown faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 12% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Drought

6% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Huntingtown flood?

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

4paid claims since 2006

$33Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20062026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Isaias: 1 claim, $18K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Calvert County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2homes raised above flood level

Disasters that hit Huntingtown

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into HuntingtownDeclared for Calvert County only

2003

Hurricane Isabel

56 households applied for aid $231K aid approved

Calvert 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. Huntingtown covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Huntingtown’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Huntingtown. 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 Huntingtown total about $1.3M 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.