Natural hazards · Kent Narrows

Kent Narrows, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kent Narrows comes from coastal flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kent Narrows?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kent Narrows to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from coastal flooding and inland flooding.

Coastal flooding36%Inland flooding35%Hurricanes8%Everything else21%

By hazard

What Kent Narrows faces

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

Coastal flooding

36% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 2% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Kent Narrows flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Kent Narrows.

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Queen Anne's County.

Disasters that hit Kent Narrows

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Queen Anne's County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Kent Narrows itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Kent NarrowsDeclared for Queen Anne's County only

Queen Anne's County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Kent Narrows

Kent Narrows and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kent Narrowsmostly coastal floodingLow

Grasonvillemostly coastal floodingLow

Chestermostly 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. Kent Narrows is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kent Narrows’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Kent Narrows. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.