Natural hazards · Clinton

Clinton, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Clinton comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clinton?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clinton to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Hurricanes10%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Clinton faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Clinton flood?

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

7paid claims since 1996

$130Kpaid to owners

3homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 3 claims, $62K
April 2007 Nor'easter: 2 claims, $39K

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. Clinton isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Dutchess County.

Disasters that hit Clinton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClintonDeclared for Dutchess County only

Dutchess County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

Around Clinton

Clinton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pleasant Valleymostly inland floodingHigh

Stanfordmostly inland floodingModerate

Clintonmostly inland floodingModerate

Hyde Parkmostly inland floodingLow

Milanmostly inland floodingLow

Washingtonmostly inland floodingLow

Rhinebeckmostly 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. Clinton covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Clinton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Clinton. 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 Clinton total about $1.3M 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.