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Natural hazards · Milo

Milo, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Milo comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 12 claims here since 1979. 10 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Milo?

59
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Milo to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves48%Inland flooding25%Ice storms9%Lightning6%Hurricanes6%Everything else6%
By hazard

What Milo faces

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

Cold waves

48% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

25% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 59% 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

6% 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 Milo flood?

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

12paid claims since 1979
$165Kpaid to owners
2homes flooded more than once
19792026

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Milo isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Piscataquis County.
Disasters that hit Milo

10 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MiloDeclared for Piscataquis County only
2023

Severe Storm and Flooding

$207K to the Town of Milo for repairs
2017

Severe Storm and Flooding

$10K to the Town of Milo for repairs
2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

$15K to the Town of Milo for repairs
2005

Severe Storms, Flooding, Snow Melt, and Ice Jams

$6K to the Town of Milo for repairs
2005

Snow

$9K to the Town of Milo for repairs
2005

Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$11K to the Town of Milo for repairs
2003

Snow

$14K to the Town of Milo for repairs
2003

Severe Storms, Flooding, Snow Melt and Ice Jams

$24K to the Town of Milo for repairs
2001

Snow

$5K to the Town of Milo for repairs
2000

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Ice Jams

$9K to the Town of Milo for repairs
Piscataquis County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Milo

Milo and the towns around it

Brownville: High, mostly cold wavesSebec: Moderate, mostly cold wavesMedford: Moderate, mostly cold wavesLake View plantation: High, mostly cold wavesBowerbank: Moderate, mostly cold wavesDover-Foxcroft: Moderate, mostly cold wavesMaxfield: High, mostly inland floodingLagrange: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMilo: Moderate, mostly cold waves MiloBrownvilleSebecMedford
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Brownvillemostly cold wavesHigh
Milomostly cold wavesModerate
Sebecmostly cold wavesModerate
Medfordmostly cold wavesModerate
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. Milo covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Milo’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Milo. 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 Milo total about $3.1M 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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