Natural hazards · Millbrook

Millbrook, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Millbrook comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Millbrook?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Millbrook to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding61%Hurricanes20%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Millbrook faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 8 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 Millbrook flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Millbrook 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 Millbrook

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MillbrookDeclared for Dutchess County only

2021

Remnants of Hurricane Ida

7 households applied for aid $24K aid approved

2017

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$7K to the Village of Millbrook for repairs

2011

Hurricane Irene

21 households applied for aid $60K aid approved $35K to the Village of Millbrook for repairs

2007

Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding

9 households applied for aid $15K aid approved $10K to the Village of Millbrook for repairs

2003

Snow

$4K to the Village of Millbrook for repairs

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

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. Millbrook covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Millbrook’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Millbrook. 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 Millbrook total about $446K 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.