Natural hazards · Maywood

Maywood, NJ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Maywood comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 43 claims here since 1996. 9 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Maywood?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Maywood to be higher than in 26% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding64%Earthquakes9%Hurricanes7%Heat waves6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Maywood faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Maywood flood?

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

43paid claims since 1996

$737Kpaid to owners

5homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ida: 12 claims, $502K
Hurricane Irene: 10 claims, $75K
April 2007 Nor'easter: 7 claims, $54K

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. Maywood 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 Maywood

9 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MaywoodDeclared for Bergen County only

2021

Remnants of Hurricane Ida

198 households applied for aid $607K aid approved $255K to the Borough of Maywood for repairs

2016

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$33K to the Borough of Maywood for repairs

2012

Hurricane Sandy

92 households applied for aid $9K aid approved $229K to the Borough of Maywood for repairs

2011

Severe Storm

$32K to the Borough of Maywood for repairs

2011

Hurricane Irene

95 households applied for aid $153K aid approved $25K to the Borough of Maywood for repairs

2010

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$29K to the Borough of Maywood for repairs

2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

17 households applied for aid $23K aid approved $38K to the Borough of Maywood for repairs

2007

Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding

143 households applied for aid $248K aid approved $32K to the Borough of Maywood for repairs

1999

Hurricane Floyd Major Disaster Declarations

$77K to the Borough of Maywood for repairs

Bergen County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Maywood

Maywood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rochelle Parkmostly inland floodingHigh

Hackensackmostly inland floodingModerate

Paramusmostly inland floodingModerate

Maywoodmostly 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. Maywood covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Maywood’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Maywood. 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 Maywood total about $1.8M 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.