Natural hazards · Easton

Easton, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Easton comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2008. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Easton?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Easton to be higher than in 17% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves43%Inland flooding33%Hurricanes8%Earthquakes7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Easton faces

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

Cold waves

43% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 25 years in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Easton flood?

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

2paid claims since 2008

$7Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20082026

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Easton 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 Easton

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into EastonDeclared for Aroostook County only

2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$18K to the Town of Easton for repairs

2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $526 aid approved

2005

Snow

$22K to the Town of Easton for repairs

2005

Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$9K to the Town of Easton for repairs

2003

Snow

$19K to the Town of Easton for repairs

2001

Snow

$3K to the Town of Easton for repairs

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

Around Easton

Easton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Mars Hillmostly inland floodingModerate

Presque Islemostly cold wavesLow

Eastonmostly cold wavesVery low

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