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Callicoon, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Callicoon comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 50 claims here since 1980. 8 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Callicoon?

65
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Callicoon to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Cold waves6%Everything else12%
By hazard

What Callicoon faces

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

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Callicoon flood?

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

50paid claims since 1980
$941Kpaid to owners
6homes flooded more than once
19802026

Biggest named events

  • Tropical Storm Lee: 1 claim, $9K
  • Hurricane Gloria: 1 claim, $5K
  • Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $7K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Callicoon isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Sullivan County.
Disasters that hit Callicoon

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into CallicoonDeclared for Sullivan County only
2017

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$31K to the Town of Callicoon for repairs
2012

Hurricane Sandy

4 households applied for aid $2K aid approved $39K to the Town of Callicoon for repairs
2011

Hurricane Irene

3 households applied for aid $82K to the Town of Callicoon for repairs
2006

Severe Storms and Flooding

18 households applied for aid $32K aid approved $1.1M to the Town of Callicoon for repairs
2005

Severe Storms and Flooding

6 households applied for aid $2K aid approved $201K to the Town of Callicoon for repairs
2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

23 households applied for aid $9K aid approved $312K to the Town of Callicoon for repairs
2003

Snow

$8K to the Town of Callicoon for repairs
2002

Snowstorms

$35K to the Town of Callicoon for repairs
Sullivan County has had 26 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.
Around Callicoon

Callicoon and the towns around it

Fremont: High, mostly inland floodingLiberty: Very low, mostly inland floodingDelaware: High, mostly inland floodingBethel: Very low, mostly inland floodingJeffersonville: High, mostly inland floodingRockland: Very high, mostly inland floodingManchester: High, mostly inland floodingHancock: Very high, mostly inland floodingFallsburg: Low, mostly inland floodingNeversink: High, mostly inland floodingDamascus: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCochecton: Low, mostly inland floodingThompson: Very low, mostly inland floodingHighland: Moderate, mostly inland floodingColchester: Very high, mostly inland floodingHardenburgh: High, mostly inland floodingDenning: High, mostly inland floodingCallicoon: High, mostly inland flooding CallicoonFremontLibertyDelawareBethelJeffersonvilleRockland
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Rocklandmostly inland floodingVery high
Fremontmostly inland floodingHigh
Callicoonmostly inland floodingHigh
Delawaremostly inland floodingHigh
Jeffersonvillemostly inland floodingHigh
Bethelmostly inland floodingVery low
Libertymostly 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. Callicoon covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Callicoon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Callicoon. 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 Callicoon total about $2.1M 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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