Natural hazards · Willimantic

Willimantic, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Willimantic comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Willimantic?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Willimantic to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves60%Inland flooding23%Hurricanes6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Willimantic faces

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

Cold waves

60% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Willimantic flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Willimantic 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 Willimantic

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WillimanticDeclared for Piscataquis County only

2023

Severe Storm and Flooding

$14K to the Town of Willimantic for repairs

2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$3K to the Town of Willimantic for repairs

2009

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Landslides

$15K to the Town of Willimantic for repairs

2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

$976 to the Town of Willimantic for repairs

2005

Severe Storms, Flooding, Snow Melt, and Ice Jams

$14K to the Town of Willimantic for repairs

Piscataquis County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Willimantic

Willimantic and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Guilfordmostly cold wavesHigh

Willimanticmostly cold wavesModerate

Monsonmostly cold wavesModerate

Bowerbankmostly cold wavesModerate

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. Willimantic 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 Willimantic’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Willimantic. 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.