Natural hazards · Glasco

Glasco, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glasco 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 Glasco?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glasco to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Tornadoes13%Hurricanes6%Cold waves5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Glasco faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Glasco flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ulster County.

Disasters that hit Glasco

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlascoDeclared for Ulster County only

Ulster County has had 29 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Glasco

Glasco and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Saugertiesmostly inland floodingLow

Glascomostly inland floodingLow

Saugerties Southmostly inland floodingLow

Red Hookmostly 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. Glasco covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Glasco’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Glasco. 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 Glasco total about $941K 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.