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Lebanon, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lebanon comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 2006. 17 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Lebanon?

35
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lebanon to be higher than in 35% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding58%Hurricanes21%Ice storms7%Everything else14%
By hazard

What Lebanon faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

21% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Ice storms

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Lebanon flood?

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

7paid claims since 2006
$92Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
20062026

Biggest named events

  • April 2007 Nor'easter: 2 claims, $7K
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Lebanon isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: York County.
Disasters that hit Lebanon

17 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LebanonDeclared for York County only
2024

Severe Winter Storm

$51K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2024

Severe Storms and Flooding

4 households applied for aid $300 aid approved
2017

Severe Storm and Flooding

$9K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2015

Severe Winter Storm, Snowstorm, and Flooding

$10K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2013

Severe Winter Storm, Snowstorm, and Flooding

$34K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2011

Tropical Storm Irene

$23K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$19K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2010

Severe Winter Storm

$17K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2008

Severe Winter Storm and Flooding

$70K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2008

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

$186K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2007

Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding

51 households applied for aid $61K aid approved $817K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2006

Severe Storms and Flooding

44 households applied for aid $45K aid approved $181K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2005

Severe Storms, Flooding, Snow Melt, and Ice Jams

$21K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2005

Snow

$19K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2005

Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$26K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2001

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

$138K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
2001

Snow

$24K to the Town of Lebanon for repairs
York County has had 36 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Lebanon

Lebanon and the towns around it

Rochester: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMilton: Low, mostly inland floodingBerwick: Low, mostly inland floodingSanford: Low, mostly inland floodingActon: Low, mostly inland floodingNorth Berwick: Low, mostly inland floodingBarrington: Moderate, mostly inland floodingFarmington: High, mostly inland floodingDover: Moderate, mostly inland floodingStrafford: Low, mostly inland floodingWakefield: High, mostly inland floodingMiddleton: Low, mostly inland floodingSomersworth: Low, mostly inland floodingRollinsford: Low, mostly inland floodingSouth Berwick: Low, mostly inland floodingAlfred: Low, mostly inland floodingShapleigh: Low, mostly inland floodingNewfield: Low, mostly inland floodingWells: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLebanon: Low, mostly inland flooding LebanonRochesterMiltonBerwickSanfordActonNorth Berwick
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Rochestermostly inland floodingModerate
Miltonmostly inland floodingLow
Berwickmostly inland floodingLow
Lebanonmostly inland floodingLow
North Berwickmostly inland floodingLow
Sanfordmostly inland floodingLow
Actonmostly 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. Lebanon covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lebanon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Lebanon. 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 Lebanon total about $1.6M 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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