Natural hazards · Brooklin

Brooklin, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brooklin comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brooklin?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brooklin to be higher than in 21% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes31%Inland flooding27%Cold waves12%Ice storms8%Lightning6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Brooklin faces

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

Hurricanes

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Ice storms

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDrought

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 Brooklin flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hancock County.

Disasters that hit Brooklin

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrooklinDeclared for Hancock County only

2024

Severe Storms and Flooding

8 households applied for aid $300 aid approved

2007

Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding

$8K to the Town of Brooklin for repairs

Hancock County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Brooklin

Brooklin and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Tremontmostly hurricanesLow

Frenchboromostly hurricanesLow

Swans Islandmostly hurricanesLow

Deer Islemostly hurricanesLow

Blue Hillmostly inland floodingLow

Brooklinmostly hurricanesLow

Sedgwickmostly hurricanesLow

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. Brooklin 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 Brooklin’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Brooklin. 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.