Natural hazards · Westmanland

Westmanland, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Westmanland comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2018. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Westmanland?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Westmanland to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves44%Inland flooding39%Hurricanes8%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Westmanland faces

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

Cold waves

44% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 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 Westmanland flood?

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

1paid claims since 2018

$15Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20182026

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Westmanland 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 Westmanland

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WestmanlandDeclared for Aroostook County only

2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

$8K to the Town of Westmanland for repairs

Aroostook County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Westmanland

Westmanland and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Westmanlandmostly cold wavesLow

New Swedenmostly cold wavesLow

Perhammostly 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. Westmanland covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Westmanland’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Westmanland. 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 Westmanland total about $1.4M 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.