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Sangerville, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sangerville comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1987. 10 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Sangerville?

63
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sangerville to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves45%Inland flooding29%Ice storms9%Hurricanes7%Lightning6%Everything else5%
By hazard

What Sangerville faces

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

Cold waves

45% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 66% 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

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

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 Sangerville flood?

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

1paid claims since 1987
$7Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19872026
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Sangerville 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 Sangerville

10 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into SangervilleDeclared for Piscataquis County only
2023

Severe Storm and Flooding

$6K to the Town of Sangerville for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$12K to the Town of Sangerville for repairs
2009

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Landslides

$21K to the Town of Sangerville for repairs
2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

$20K to the Town of Sangerville for repairs
2005

Snow

$5K to the Town of Sangerville for repairs
2005

Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$4K to the Town of Sangerville for repairs
2003

Snow

$5K to the Town of Sangerville for repairs
2003

Severe Storms, Flooding, Snow Melt and Ice Jams

$4K to the Town of Sangerville for repairs
2001

Snow

$2K to the Town of Sangerville for repairs
2000

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Ice Jams

$5K to the Town of Sangerville for repairs
Piscataquis County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Sangerville

Sangerville and the towns around it

Guilford: High, mostly cold wavesDover-Foxcroft: Moderate, mostly cold wavesParkman: Moderate, mostly cold wavesDexter: Very low, mostly inland floodingWillimantic: Moderate, mostly cold wavesAbbot: Moderate, mostly cold wavesBowerbank: Moderate, mostly cold wavesSebec: Moderate, mostly cold wavesGarland: Low, mostly inland floodingCambridge: Low, mostly inland floodingWellington: Moderate, mostly cold wavesCorinna: Low, mostly inland floodingRipley: Low, mostly inland floodingSangerville: High, mostly cold waves SangervilleGuilfordDover-FoxcroftParkmanDexter
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Sangervillemostly cold wavesHigh
Guilfordmostly cold wavesHigh
Dover-Foxcroftmostly cold wavesModerate
Parkmanmostly cold wavesModerate
Dextermostly inland floodingVery 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. Sangerville covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sangerville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Sangerville. 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 Sangerville total about $2.4M 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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