Natural hazards · Butler

Butler, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Butler comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Butler?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Butler to be higher than in 13% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding66%Hail15%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Butler faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

15% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesIce 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 Butler flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wayne County.

Disasters that hit Butler

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into ButlerDeclared for Wayne County only

2003

Ice Storm

$21K to the Town of Butler for repairs

1999

Snow

$7K to the Town of Butler for repairs

Wayne County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Butler

Butler and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Galenmostly inland floodingLow

Victorymostly inland floodingLow

Savannahmostly inland floodingLow

Wolcottmostly inland floodingVery low

Huronmostly inland floodingVery low

Butlermostly 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. Butler is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Butler’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Butler. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.