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Natural hazards · Newfields

Newfields, NH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Newfields comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 8 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Newfields?

33
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Newfields to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding73%Earthquakes7%Hurricanes6%Tornadoes5%Everything else9%
By hazard

What Newfields faces

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

Inland flooding

73% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage
Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Newfields flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Newfields 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 Newfields

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into NewfieldsDeclared for Rockingham County only
2018

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$12K to the Town of Newfields for repairs
2015

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$18K to the Town of Newfields for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

$60K to the Town of Newfields for repairs
2010

Severe Winter Storm

$13K to the Town of Newfields for repairs
2008

Severe Winter Storm

$8K to the Town of Newfields for repairs
2007

Severe Storms and Flooding

$5K to the Town of Newfields for repairs
2006

Severe Storms and Flooding

8 households applied for aid $9K aid approved $11K to the Town of Newfields for repairs
2003

Snow

$5K to the Town of Newfields for repairs
Rockingham County has had 30 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Newfields

Newfields and the towns around it

Stratham: Low, mostly inland floodingNewmarket: High, mostly inland floodingExeter: Moderate, mostly inland floodingGreenland: Very low, mostly inland floodingNorth Hampton: Moderate, mostly inland floodingDurham: Low, mostly inland floodingLee: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBrentwood: Low, mostly inland floodingKingston: Low, mostly inland floodingEast Kingston: Low, mostly inland floodingKensington: Low, mostly inland floodingNewfields: Low, mostly inland flooding NewfieldsStrathamNewmarketExeter
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Newmarketmostly inland floodingHigh
Exetermostly inland floodingModerate
Newfieldsmostly inland floodingLow
Strathammostly 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. Newfields covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Newfields’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Newfields. 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 Newfields total about $550K 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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