Natural hazards · Newark

Newark, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Newark comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Newark?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Newark to be higher than in 46% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes61%Inland flooding17%Coastal flooding6%Drought5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Newark faces

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

Hurricanes

61% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Coastal flooding

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Drought

5% of expected damage

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Newark flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Worcester County.

Disasters that hit Newark

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Worcester County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Newark itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into NewarkDeclared for Worcester County only

Worcester County has had 10 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. Newark 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 Newark’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Newark. 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.