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Kingston, NH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kingston comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 2001. 15 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Kingston?

24
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kingston to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Earthquakes9%Tornadoes7%Hurricanes7%Everything else14%
By hazard

What Kingston faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage
Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Kingston flood?

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

8paid claims since 2001
$109Kpaid to owners
2homes flooded more than once
20012026

Biggest named events

  • March 2010 Nor'easter: 2 claims, $31K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Kingston isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Rockingham County.
Disasters that hit Kingston

15 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into KingstonDeclared for Rockingham County only
2024

Severe Winter Storm and Flooding

$61K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2018

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$39K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2015

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$32K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2013

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$28K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2012

Hurricane Sandy

$23K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2011

Severe Storm and Snowstorm

$35K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2011

Hurricane Irene

$7K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$16K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2010

Severe Winter Storm

$80K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2008

Severe Winter Storm

$158K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2007

Severe Storms and Flooding

7 households applied for aid $18K aid approved
2006

Severe Storms and Flooding

45 households applied for aid $70K aid approved $38K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2005

Record And/Or Near Record Snow

$19K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2003

Snow

$17K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
2001

Snow

$24K to the Town of Kingston for repairs
Rockingham County has had 30 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Kingston

Kingston and the towns around it

Exeter: Moderate, mostly inland floodingDanville: Low, mostly inland floodingEast Kingston: Low, mostly inland floodingNewton: Very low, mostly inland floodingPlaistow: Low, mostly inland floodingBrentwood: Low, mostly inland floodingHampstead: Very low, mostly inland floodingStratham: Low, mostly inland floodingNewfields: Low, mostly inland floodingKensington: Low, mostly inland floodingSandown: Low, mostly inland floodingFremont: Moderate, mostly inland floodingSouth Hampton: Low, mostly inland floodingMerrimac: Low, mostly inland floodingAtkinson: Low, mostly inland floodingHaverhill: Moderate, mostly inland floodingDerry: Moderate, mostly inland floodingKingston: Low, mostly inland flooding KingstonExeterDanvilleEast KingstonNewtonPlaistowBrentwoodHampstead
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Exetermostly inland floodingModerate
Brentwoodmostly inland floodingLow
East Kingstonmostly inland floodingLow
Plaistowmostly inland floodingLow
Kingstonmostly inland floodingLow
Danvillemostly inland floodingLow
Newtonmostly inland floodingVery low
Hampsteadmostly inland floodingVery low
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. Kingston covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kingston’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Kingston. 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 Kingston total about $1.3M 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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