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Natural hazards · Oldmans

Oldmans, NJ natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Oldmans comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1999. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Oldmans?

48
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding58%Strong wind9%Earthquakes7%Hurricanes5%Everything else21%
By hazard

What Oldmans faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Oldmans flood?

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

2paid claims since 1999
$6Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19992026

Biggest named events

  • Hurricane Floyd: 1 claim, $3K
  • April 2007 Nor'easter: 1 claim, $3K
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Oldmans isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Salem County.
Disasters that hit Oldmans

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into OldmansDeclared for Salem County only
2011

Hurricane Irene

$3K to the Township of Oldmans for repairs
2010

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$3K to the Township of Oldmans for repairs
2009

Snowstorm

$3K to the Township of Oldmans for repairs
Salem County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.
Around Oldmans

Oldmans and the towns around it

Logan: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWoolwich: Very low, mostly inland floodingCarneys Point: High, mostly coastal floodingPilesgrove: Low, mostly inland floodingGreenwich: Very high, mostly inland floodingChester: Low, mostly inland floodingMarcus Hook: Low, mostly inland floodingTrainer: Very low, mostly inland floodingEast Greenwich: Low, mostly inland floodingSouth Harrison: Very low, mostly inland floodingHarrison: Very low, mostly inland floodingMannington: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWilmington: High, mostly inland floodingPennsville: Very high, mostly coastal floodingPenns Grove: High, mostly coastal floodingUpper Pittsgrove: Very low, mostly inland floodingOldmans: Moderate, mostly inland flooding OldmansLoganWoolwichCarneys PointPilesgrove
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Carneys Pointmostly coastal floodingHigh
Oldmansmostly inland floodingModerate
Loganmostly inland floodingModerate
Pilesgrovemostly inland floodingLow
Woolwichmostly 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. Oldmans covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Oldmans’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Oldmans. 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 Oldmans 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.

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