Natural hazards · Brookfield

Brookfield, NH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brookfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brookfield?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brookfield to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding62%Hurricanes19%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Brookfield faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Brookfield flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Brookfield isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Carroll County.

Disasters that hit Brookfield

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrookfieldDeclared for Carroll County only

2006

Severe Storms and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $3K aid approved $10K to the Town of Brookfield for repairs

Carroll County has had 27 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Brookfield

Brookfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brookfieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Wakefieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Wolfeboromostly inland floodingModerate

Middletonmostly inland floodingLow

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