Natural hazards · Kingstown

Kingstown, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kingstown comes from drought, 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 Kingstown?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Drought32%Inland flooding30%Hurricanes10%Tornadoes5%Strong wind5%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Kingstown faces

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

Drought

32% of expected damage

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Kingstown flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Kingstown 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 Kingstown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KingstownDeclared for Queen Anne's County only

Queen Anne's County has had 14 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. Kingstown 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 Kingstown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Kingstown. 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.