Natural hazards · Castile

Castile, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Castile comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Castile?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Castile to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Tornadoes5%Everything else21%

By hazard

What Castile faces

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

Inland flooding

74% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Castile flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wyoming County.

Disasters that hit Castile

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Wyoming County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Castile itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into CastileDeclared for Wyoming County only

Wyoming County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and severe storms.

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. Castile 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 Castile’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Castile. 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.