Natural hazards · Rossville

Rossville, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rossville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1994.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rossville?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rossville to be higher than in 2% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding36%Heat waves32%Hurricanes10%Earthquakes7%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Rossville faces

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

32% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 14% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Rossville flood?

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

2paid claims since 1994

$10Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19942026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Baltimore County.

Disasters that hit Rossville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RossvilleDeclared for Baltimore County only

Baltimore County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and floods.

Around Rossville

Rossville and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rosedalemostly inland floodingVery low

Overleamostly heat wavesVery low

White Marshmostly inland floodingVery low

Rossvillemostly inland floodingVery low

Middle Rivermostly 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. Rossville covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rossville’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Rossville. 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 Rossville total about $2.7M 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.