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Webster plantation, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Webster plantation comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1979.

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

How exposed is Webster plantation?

45
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Webster plantation to be higher than in 45% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Hurricanes11%Everything else18%
By hazard

What Webster plantation faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

11% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Webster plantation flood?

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

4paid claims since 1979
$29Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19792026
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Webster plantation isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Penobscot County.
Disasters that hit Webster plantation

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Penobscot County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Webster plantation itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Webster plantationDeclared for Penobscot County only
Penobscot County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Webster plantation

Webster plantation and the towns around it

Winn: Low, mostly inland floodingSpringfield: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLee: Low, mostly inland floodingMattawamkeag: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLincoln: Very low, mostly inland floodingCarroll plantation: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLakeville: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWebster plantation: Moderate, mostly inland flooding Webster plantationWinnSpringfield
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Webster plantationmostly inland floodingModerate
Springfieldmostly inland floodingModerate
Winnmostly 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. Webster plantation covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Webster plantation’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Webster plantation. 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 Webster plantation total about $666K 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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