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Natural hazards · Hyde Park

Hyde Park, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hyde Park comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 31 claims here since 1979. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Hyde Park?

38
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hyde Park to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Hurricanes9%Everything else18%
By hazard

What Hyde Park 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
Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Hyde Park flood?

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

31paid claims since 1979
$452Kpaid to owners
3homes flooded more than once
19792026

Biggest named events

  • Hurricane Irene: 10 claims, $227K
  • April 2007 Nor'easter: 3 claims, $10K
  • December Nor'easter: 2 claims, $51K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Hyde Park isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Dutchess County.
Disasters that hit Hyde Park

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Hyde ParkDeclared for Dutchess County only
2021

Remnants of Hurricane Ida

21 households applied for aid $14K aid approved
2017

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$52K to the Town of Hyde Park for repairs
2011

Hurricane Irene

253 households applied for aid $673K aid approved $234K to the Town of Hyde Park for repairs
2010

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$45K to the Town of Hyde Park for repairs
2007

Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding

33 households applied for aid $21K aid approved $38K to the Town of Hyde Park for repairs
2003

Snow

$14K to the Town of Hyde Park for repairs
Dutchess County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.
Around Hyde Park

Hyde Park and the towns around it

Clinton: Moderate, mostly inland floodingEsopus: Low, mostly inland floodingPoughkeepsie: Low, mostly inland floodingLloyd: Low, mostly inland floodingRhinebeck: Low, mostly inland floodingPleasant Valley: High, mostly inland floodingMilan: Low, mostly inland floodingStanford: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWashington: Low, mostly inland floodingRosendale: Moderate, mostly inland floodingUlster: Low, mostly inland floodingKingston: Moderate, mostly inland floodingNew Paltz: Very low, mostly inland floodingLaGrange: Low, mostly inland floodingPoughkeepsie: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWappinger: Low, mostly inland floodingMarlborough: Low, mostly inland floodingNewburgh: Low, mostly inland floodingPlattekill: Low, mostly inland floodingGardiner: Moderate, mostly inland floodingRed Hook: Low, mostly inland floodingHyde Park: Low, mostly inland flooding Hyde ParkClintonEsopusPoughkeepsieLloydRhinebeckPleasant Valley
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Pleasant Valleymostly inland floodingHigh
Clintonmostly inland floodingModerate
Hyde Parkmostly inland floodingLow
Lloydmostly inland floodingLow
Poughkeepsiemostly inland floodingLow
Rhinebeckmostly inland floodingLow
Esopusmostly 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. Hyde Park covers 5 census tracts, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Hyde Park’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Hyde Park. 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 Hyde Park total about $5.2M 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.

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