Natural hazards · Glassboro

Glassboro, NJ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glassboro comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1984. 8 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glassboro?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glassboro to be higher than in 8% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding45%Earthquakes16%Heat waves9%Strong wind8%Cold waves6%Tornadoes5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Glassboro faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 10% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

16% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 6% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Glassboro flood?

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

3paid claims since 1984

$5Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19842026

Biggest named events

April 2007 Nor'easter: 1 claim, $1K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Gloucester County.

Disasters that hit Glassboro

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlassboroDeclared for Gloucester County only

2021

Remnants of Hurricane Ida

56 households applied for aid $7K aid approved

2015

Severe Storm

$12K to the Borough of Glassboro for repairs

2012

Hurricane Sandy

16 households applied for aid $74K aid approved $48K to the Borough of Glassboro for repairs

2011

Hurricane Irene

316 households applied for aid $355K aid approved $20K to the Borough of Glassboro for repairs

2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

62 households applied for aid $56K aid approved

2010

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$55K to the Borough of Glassboro for repairs

2009

Snowstorm

$69K to the Borough of Glassboro for repairs

2007

Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding

41 households applied for aid $47K aid approved

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

Around Glassboro

Glassboro and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Harrisonmostly inland floodingVery low

Claytonmostly inland floodingVery low

Monroemostly inland floodingVery low

Washingtonmostly inland floodingVery low

Glassboromostly inland floodingVery low

Pitmanmostly inland floodingVery low

Elkmostly 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. Glassboro covers 5 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Glassboro’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Glassboro. 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 Glassboro total about $4.9M 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.