Natural hazards · DeWitt

DeWitt, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in DeWitt comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 48 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is DeWitt?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding72%Strong wind7%Tornadoes6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What DeWitt faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 DeWitt flood?

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

48paid claims since 1978

$2.4Mpaid to owners

8homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Torrential rain: 3 claims, $130K
Tropical Storm Fred: 1 claim, $90K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (4) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Onondaga County.

Disasters that hit DeWitt

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DeWittDeclared for Onondaga County only

Onondaga County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around DeWitt

DeWitt and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Manliusmostly inland floodingHigh

Syracusemostly inland floodingLow

LaFayettemostly inland floodingLow

DeWittmostly inland floodingVery low

Salinamostly inland floodingVery low

East Syracusemostly 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. DeWitt covers 7 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to DeWitt’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of DeWitt. 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 DeWitt total about $7.5M 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.