Natural hazards · Fabius

Fabius, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fabius comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fabius?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fabius to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Tornadoes6%Strong wind6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Fabius 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

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 100 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Fabius flood?

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

1paid claims since 2003

$1Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Fabius 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 Fabius

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FabiusDeclared for Onondaga County only

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

Around Fabius

Fabius and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cuylermostly inland floodingHigh

Truxtonmostly inland floodingHigh

DeRuytermostly inland floodingModerate

Pompeymostly inland floodingLow

Fabiusmostly inland floodingVery low

Tullymostly 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. Fabius covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fabius’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Fabius. 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 Fabius total about $558K 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.