Natural hazards · Caswell

Caswell, ME natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Caswell?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Caswell to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves44%Inland flooding39%Hurricanes8%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Caswell faces

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

Cold waves

44% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Caswell flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Caswell 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 Caswell

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CaswellDeclared for Aroostook County only

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

Around Caswell

Caswell and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Caswellmostly cold wavesLow

Hamlinmostly cold wavesLow

Limestonemostly cold wavesLow

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