Natural hazards · Haddon Heights

Haddon Heights, NJ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Haddon Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1978. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Haddon Heights?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Haddon Heights to be higher than in 5% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding45%Earthquakes15%Heat waves10%Cold waves9%Tornadoes6%Hurricanes5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Haddon Heights 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 9% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

15% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Haddon Heights flood?

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

8paid claims since 1978

$59Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Camden County.

Disasters that hit Haddon Heights

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Haddon HeightsDeclared for Camden County only

2016

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$15K to the Borough of Haddon Heights for repairs

2012

Hurricane Sandy

$42K to the Borough of Haddon Heights for repairs

2011

Hurricane Irene

9 households applied for aid $1K aid approved $15K to the Borough of Haddon Heights for repairs

2010

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$13K to the Borough of Haddon Heights for repairs

2009

Snowstorm

$11K to the Borough of Haddon Heights for repairs

2007

Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding

5 households applied for aid $5K aid approved

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $3K aid approved $761 to the Borough of Haddon Heights for repairs

Camden County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Haddon Heights

Haddon Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Bellmawrmostly inland floodingLow

Mount Ephraimmostly inland floodingLow

Haddonfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Barringtonmostly inland floodingVery low

Audubonmostly inland floodingVery low

Haddon Heightsmostly 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. Haddon Heights covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Haddon Heights’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Haddon Heights. 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 Haddon Heights total about $1.2M 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.