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Natural hazards · Dover-Foxcroft

Dover-Foxcroft, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dover-Foxcroft comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 11 claims here since 1979. 9 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Dover-Foxcroft?

54
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dover-Foxcroft to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves50%Inland flooding22%Ice storms9%Lightning7%Hurricanes6%Everything else6%
By hazard

What Dover-Foxcroft faces

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

Cold waves

50% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Ice storms

9% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lightning

7% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDrought

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 Dover-Foxcroft flood?

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

11paid claims since 1979
$73Kpaid to owners
1homes flooded more than once
19792026

Biggest named events

  • December Nor'easter: 1 claim, $15K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of all homes
are insured
🏷️ 05% off flood insurance. Dover-Foxcroft is in FEMA’s Community Rating System (class 9) for its flood-proofing work.
Insurance rates: Piscataquis County.
Disasters that hit Dover-Foxcroft

9 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Dover-FoxcroftDeclared for Piscataquis County only
2023

Severe Storm and Flooding

$312K to the Town of Dover-Foxcroft for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$18K to the Town of Dover-Foxcroft for repairs
2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

$51K to the Town of Dover-Foxcroft for repairs
2005

Severe Storms, Flooding, Snow Melt, and Ice Jams

$37K to the Town of Dover-Foxcroft for repairs
2005

Snow

$13K to the Town of Dover-Foxcroft for repairs
2005

Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$12K to the Town of Dover-Foxcroft for repairs
2003

Snow

$18K to the Town of Dover-Foxcroft for repairs
2003

Severe Storms, Flooding, Snow Melt and Ice Jams

$11K to the Town of Dover-Foxcroft for repairs
2000

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Ice Jams

$6K to the Town of Dover-Foxcroft for repairs
Piscataquis County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Dover-Foxcroft

Dover-Foxcroft and the towns around it

Bowerbank: Moderate, mostly cold wavesSangerville: High, mostly cold wavesSebec: Moderate, mostly cold wavesGarland: Low, mostly inland floodingGuilford: High, mostly cold wavesWillimantic: Moderate, mostly cold wavesParkman: Moderate, mostly cold wavesDexter: Very low, mostly inland floodingMilo: Moderate, mostly cold wavesCharleston: Low, mostly inland floodingExeter: Low, mostly inland floodingAbbot: Moderate, mostly cold wavesDover-Foxcroft: Moderate, mostly cold waves Dover-FoxcroftBowerbankSangervilleSebecGarlandGuilford
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Sangervillemostly cold wavesHigh
Guilfordmostly cold wavesHigh
Sebecmostly cold wavesModerate
Dover-Foxcroftmostly cold wavesModerate
Bowerbankmostly cold wavesModerate
Garlandmostly 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. Dover-Foxcroft covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dover-Foxcroft’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Dover-Foxcroft. 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 Dover-Foxcroft total about $3.7M 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.

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