Natural hazards · Dixmont

Dixmont, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dixmont comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dixmont?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dixmont to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding56%Hurricanes15%Ice storms7%Winter weather7%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Dixmont faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Ice storms

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Winter weather

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 24 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailCold wavesHeat 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 Dixmont flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Penobscot County.

Disasters that hit Dixmont

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DixmontDeclared for Penobscot County only

2017

Severe Storm and Flooding

$6K to the Town of Dixmont for repairs

2005

Snow

$7K to the Town of Dixmont for repairs

2005

Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$6K to the Town of Dixmont for repairs

2003

Snow

$6K to the Town of Dixmont for repairs

2001

Snow

$3K to the Town of Dixmont for repairs

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

Around Dixmont

Dixmont and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jacksonmostly inland floodingModerate

Troymostly inland floodingModerate

Dixmontmostly inland floodingLow

Newburghmostly inland floodingLow

Etnamostly inland floodingLow

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. Dixmont covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dixmont’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Dixmont. 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 Dixmont total about $664K 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.