Natural hazards · Woodmore

Woodmore, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Woodmore comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2010.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Woodmore?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Woodmore to be higher than in 11% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding65%Hurricanes9%Tornadoes7%Heat waves6%Earthquakes5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Woodmore faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 3% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce 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 Woodmore flood?

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

3paid claims since 2010

$11Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20102026

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Woodmore 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 Woodmore

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WoodmoreDeclared 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 Woodmore

Woodmore and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ketteringmostly inland floodingVery low

Woodmoremostly inland floodingVery low

Mitchellvillemostly inland floodingVery low

Fairwoodmostly inland floodingVery low

Bowiemostly 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. Woodmore covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Woodmore’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Woodmore. 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 Woodmore total about $1.9M 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.