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Natural hazards · Wade

Wade, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wade comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2009. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Wade?

27
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wade to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves58%Inland flooding24%Hurricanes7%Winter weather5%Everything else6%
By hazard

What Wade faces

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

Cold waves

58% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places
Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Winter weather

5% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about 30 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Wade flood?

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

4paid claims since 2009
$89Kpaid to owners
1homes flooded more than once
20092026

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Wade 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 Wade

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WadeDeclared for Aroostook County only
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$5K to the Town of Wade for repairs
2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

$8K to the Town of Wade for repairs
2005

Snow

$9K to the Town of Wade for repairs
2005

Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$2K to the Town of Wade for repairs
2003

Snow

$4K to the Town of Wade for repairs
2001

Snow

$2K to the Town of Wade for repairs
2000

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Ice Jams

$12K to the Town of Wade for repairs
Aroostook County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.
Around Wade

Wade and the towns around it

Castle Hill: Very low, mostly cold wavesPerham: Low, mostly cold wavesWashburn: Low, mostly cold wavesAshland: Low, mostly inland floodingMapleton: Very low, mostly cold wavesWoodland: Low, mostly cold wavesWestmanland: Low, mostly cold wavesWade: Low, mostly cold waves WadeCastle HillPerhamWashburn
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Wademostly cold wavesLow
Perhammostly cold wavesLow
Washburnmostly cold wavesLow
Castle Hillmostly cold wavesVery 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. Wade 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 Wade’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Wade. 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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