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Natural hazards · Cliffside Park

Cliffside Park, NJ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cliffside Park comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2023. 10 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Cliffside Park?

48
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cliffside Park to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Heat waves5%Hurricanes5%Everything else18%
By hazard

What Cliffside Park faces

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

Inland flooding

71% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage
Well below average · higher than 5% of U.S. places
Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Cliffside Park flood?

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

1paid claims since 2023
$3Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
20232026
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Cliffside Park isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Bergen County.
Disasters that hit Cliffside Park

10 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Cliffside Park itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Borough of Cliffside Park.

Brought FEMA money into Cliffside ParkDeclared for Bergen County only
2021

Remnants of Hurricane Ida

275 households applied for aid $1.1M aid approved $1.0M to the Borough of Cliffside Park for repairs
2020

Tropical Storm Isaias

$54K to the Borough of Cliffside Park for repairs
2018

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$42K to the Borough of Cliffside Park for repairs
2016

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$19K to the Borough of Cliffside Park for repairs
2012

Hurricane Sandy

312 households applied for aid $90K aid approved $449K to the Borough of Cliffside Park for repairs
2011

Severe Storm

$12K to the Borough of Cliffside Park for repairs
2011

Hurricane Irene

35 households applied for aid $107K aid approved $45K to the Borough of Cliffside Park for repairs
2010

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$39K to the Borough of Cliffside Park for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

3 households applied for aid $7K aid approved $22K to the Borough of Cliffside Park for repairs
2007

Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding

15 households applied for aid $23K aid approved $5K to the Borough of Cliffside Park for repairs
Bergen County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.
Around Cliffside Park

Cliffside Park and the towns around it

Edgewater: Very high, mostly inland floodingFairview: Moderate, mostly inland floodingRidgefield: High, mostly inland floodingFort Lee: Very low, mostly inland floodingNorth Bergen: Moderate, mostly inland floodingRidgefield Park: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLittle Ferry: Very high, mostly coastal floodingCarlstadt: Very high, mostly coastal floodingPalisades Park: Low, mostly inland floodingCliffside Park: Moderate, mostly inland flooding Cliffside ParkEdgewaterFairviewRidgefield
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Edgewatermostly inland floodingVery high
Ridgefieldmostly inland floodingHigh
Fairviewmostly inland floodingModerate
Cliffside Parkmostly inland floodingModerate
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. Cliffside Park covers 6 census tracts, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Cliffside Park’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Cliffside Park. 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 Cliffside Park total about $4.8M 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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