Natural hazards · Hastings

Hastings, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hastings comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1993. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hastings?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hastings to be higher than in 45% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding83%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Hastings faces

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

Inland flooding

83% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Hastings flood?

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

6paid claims since 1993

$37Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Oswego County.

Disasters that hit Hastings

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Hastings itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Hastings.

Brought FEMA money into HastingsDeclared for Oswego County only

2007

Record Snow and Near Record Snow

$20K to the Town of Hastings for repairs

2004

Snow

$16K to the Town of Hastings for repairs

2003

Ice Storm

15 households applied for aid $4K aid approved $26K to the Town of Hastings for repairs

Oswego County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Hastings

Hastings and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Schroeppelmostly inland floodingHigh

West Monroemostly inland floodingModerate

Hastingsmostly inland floodingModerate

Ciceromostly inland floodingLow

Palermomostly inland floodingLow

Mexicomostly inland floodingLow

Claymostly inland floodingLow

Parishmostly 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. Hastings covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Hastings’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Hastings. 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 Hastings total about $2.5M 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.