Natural hazards · Honeoye Falls

Honeoye Falls, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Honeoye Falls comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Honeoye Falls?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Honeoye Falls to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Cold waves9%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Honeoye Falls faces

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

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Honeoye Falls flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Monroe County.

Disasters that hit Honeoye Falls

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Honeoye Falls itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Village of Honeoye Falls.

Brought FEMA money into Honeoye FallsDeclared for Monroe County only

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

$20K to the Village of Honeoye Falls for repairs

2003

Ice Storm

8 households applied for aid $3K aid approved $19K to the Village of Honeoye Falls for repairs

1999

Snow

$4K to the Village of Honeoye Falls for repairs

Monroe County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Honeoye Falls

Honeoye Falls and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Honeoye Fallsmostly inland floodingLow

Limamostly 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. Honeoye Falls covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Honeoye Falls’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Honeoye Falls. 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 Honeoye Falls total about $906K 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.