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Natural hazards · Littleton

Littleton, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Littleton comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Littleton?

31
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Littleton to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding45%Cold waves35%Hurricanes9%Everything else11%
By hazard

What Littleton faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

35% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places
Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 21 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Littleton flood?

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Littleton 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 Littleton

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LittletonDeclared for Aroostook County only
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$38K to the Town of Littleton for repairs
2005

Snow

$15K to the Town of Littleton for repairs
2005

Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$4K to the Town of Littleton for repairs
2003

Snow

$15K to the Town of Littleton for repairs
Aroostook County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.
Around Littleton

Littleton and the towns around it

Hammond: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMonticello: Low, mostly inland floodingHoulton: Low, mostly inland floodingSmyrna: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBridgewater: Low, mostly inland floodingLudlow: Moderate, mostly inland floodingHodgdon: Low, mostly inland floodingNew Limerick: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLittleton: Low, mostly inland flooding LittletonHammondMonticelloHoulton
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Hammondmostly inland floodingModerate
Houltonmostly inland floodingLow
Littletonmostly inland floodingLow
Monticellomostly 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. Littleton 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 Littleton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Littleton. 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.

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