Natural hazards · Moose River

Moose River, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Moose River comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Moose River?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Moose River to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding50%Cold waves37%Hurricanes8%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Moose River faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

37% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Moose River flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Moose River isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Somerset County.

Disasters that hit Moose River

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Somerset County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Moose River itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Moose RiverDeclared for Somerset County only

Somerset County has had 25 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Moose River 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 Moose River’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Moose River. 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.