Natural hazards · Castle Hill

Castle Hill, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Castle Hill comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Castle Hill?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Castle Hill to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves49%Inland flooding32%Hurricanes7%Winter weather5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Castle Hill faces

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

Cold waves

49% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 20 years in the area

Winter weather

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 30 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Castle Hill flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Aroostook County.

Disasters that hit Castle Hill

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Castle HillDeclared for Aroostook County only

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

Around Castle Hill

Castle Hill and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ashlandmostly inland floodingLow

Wademostly cold wavesLow

Castle Hillmostly cold wavesVery low

Mapletonmostly cold wavesVery 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. Castle Hill 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 Castle Hill’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Castle Hill. 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.