Natural hazards · Langley Park

Langley Park, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Langley Park comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2018.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Langley Park?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Langley Park to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding48%Heat waves16%Tornadoes13%Hurricanes6%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Langley Park faces

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

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Langley Park flood?

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

2paid claims since 2018

$8Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20182026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Isaias: 1 claim, $3K

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Langley Park 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 Langley Park

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Langley ParkDeclared 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 Langley Park

Langley Park and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Chillummostly inland floodingLow

Langley Parkmostly inland floodingLow

Silver Springmostly inland floodingVery low

Takoma Parkmostly inland floodingVery low

Adelphimostly 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. Langley Park covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Langley Park’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Langley Park. 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 Langley Park total about $1.8M 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.