Natural hazards · Waterview

Waterview, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Waterview 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 Waterview?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Waterview to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes46%Inland flooding22%Coastal flooding11%Wildfire6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Waterview faces

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

Hurricanes

46% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 11% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Coastal flooding

11% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Waterview flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wicomico County.

Disasters that hit Waterview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WaterviewDeclared for Wicomico County only

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