Natural hazards · Menands

Menands, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Menands comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2005. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Menands?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Menands to be higher than in 10% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Tornadoes11%Hurricanes6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Menands faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 20 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce 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 Menands flood?

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

4paid claims since 2005

$78Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20052026

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. Menands isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Albany County.

Disasters that hit Menands

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MenandsDeclared for Albany County only

2017

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$21K to the Village of Menands for repairs

2011

Hurricane Irene

16 households applied for aid $25K aid approved

2008

Severe Winter Storm

$12K to the Village of Menands for repairs

2007

Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding

1 household applied for aid $171 aid approved

2002

Snowstorms

$9K to the Village of Menands for repairs

Albany County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

Around Menands

Menands and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

North Greenbushmostly inland floodingLow

Albanymostly inland floodingLow

Menandsmostly inland floodingVery low

Coloniemostly 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. Menands covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Menands’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Menands. 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 Menands total about $948K 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.