Natural hazards · Amboy

Amboy, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Amboy comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Amboy?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Amboy to be higher than in 29% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding80%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Amboy faces

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

Inland flooding

80% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Amboy flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Amboy.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Oswego County.

Disasters that hit Amboy

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into AmboyDeclared for Oswego County only

2007

Record Snow and Near Record Snow

$8K to the Town of Amboy for repairs

2004

Snow

$13K to the Town of Amboy for repairs

2003

Ice Storm

$4K to the Town of Amboy for repairs

Oswego County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Amboy

Amboy and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Camdenmostly inland floodingHigh

Constantiamostly inland floodingModerate

Williamstownmostly inland floodingModerate

Amboymostly inland floodingLow

Parishmostly 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. Amboy covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Amboy’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Amboy. 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 Amboy total about $235K 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.