Natural hazards · Centerport

Centerport, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Centerport comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 35 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Centerport?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Centerport to be higher than in 7% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and coastal flooding.

Inland flooding48%Coastal flooding20%Hurricanes15%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Centerport faces

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

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 5% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Coastal flooding

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Centerport flood?

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

35paid claims since 1978

$1.5Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Sandy: 11 claims, $1.1M
December Storm - Nor'easter: 6 claims, $108K
Hurricane Irene: 3 claims, $178K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Suffolk County.

Disasters that hit Centerport

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CenterportDeclared for Suffolk County only

Suffolk County has had 28 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Centerport

Centerport and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Asharokenmostly coastal floodingVery low

Centerportmostly inland floodingVery low

Northportmostly inland floodingVery low

Greenlawnmostly inland floodingVery low

East Northportmostly inland floodingVery low

Huntington Baymostly 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. Centerport covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Centerport’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Centerport. 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 Centerport total about $1.4M 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.