Natural hazards · LaGrange

LaGrange, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in LaGrange comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 44 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is LaGrange?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in LaGrange to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding67%Hurricanes16%Everything else17%

By hazard

What LaGrange faces

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

Inland flooding

67% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 LaGrange flood?

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

44paid claims since 1978

$711Kpaid to owners

9homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Torrential rain: 9 claims, $111K
Hurricane Irene: 8 claims, $114K
April 2007 Nor'easter: 7 claims, $148K

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. LaGrange 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 LaGrange

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LaGrangeDeclared for Dutchess County only

Dutchess County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

Around LaGrange

LaGrange and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pleasant Valleymostly inland floodingHigh

East Fishkillmostly inland floodingModerate

Beekmanmostly inland floodingModerate

LaGrangemostly inland floodingLow

Wappingermostly inland floodingLow

Poughkeepsiemostly inland floodingLow

Union Valemostly 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. LaGrange covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to LaGrange’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of LaGrange. 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 LaGrange total about $4.8M 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.