Natural hazards · Rawlings

Rawlings, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rawlings comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rawlings?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rawlings to be higher than in 3% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding54%Heat waves12%Strong wind9%Drought6%Tornadoes5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Rawlings faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Drought

6% of expected damage

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Rawlings flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Allegany County.

Disasters that hit Rawlings

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into RawlingsDeclared for Allegany County only

2003

Hurricane Isabel

1 household applied for aid

Allegany 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. Rawlings 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 Rawlings’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Rawlings. 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.