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Natural hazards · Westfield

Westfield, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Westfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Westfield?

42
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Westfield to be higher than in 42% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding43%Cold waves40%Hurricanes7%Everything else10%
By hazard

What Westfield faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

40% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places
Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 22 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Westfield flood?

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Westfield 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 Westfield

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WestfieldDeclared for Aroostook County only
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$12K to the Town of Westfield for repairs
2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

$18K to the Town of Westfield for repairs
2005

Snow

$9K to the Town of Westfield for repairs
2005

Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$4K to the Town of Westfield for repairs
2003

Snow

$8K to the Town of Westfield for repairs
2001

Snow

$2K to the Town of Westfield for repairs
2000

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Ice Jams

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

Westfield and the towns around it

Mars Hill: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPresque Isle: Low, mostly cold wavesBlaine: Moderate, mostly inland floodingEaston: Very low, mostly cold wavesFort Fairfield: Very low, mostly cold wavesCaribou: Low, mostly cold wavesWestfield: Moderate, mostly inland flooding WestfieldMars HillPresque Isle
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Westfieldmostly inland floodingModerate
Mars Hillmostly inland floodingModerate
Presque Islemostly cold wavesLow
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. Westfield 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 Westfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Westfield. 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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