Natural hazards · Parish

Parish, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Parish comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Parish?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Parish to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding77%Everything else23%

By hazard

What Parish faces

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

Inland flooding

77% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Parish flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Oswego County.

Disasters that hit Parish

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ParishDeclared for Oswego County only

Oswego County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Parish

Parish and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

West Monroemostly inland floodingModerate

Hastingsmostly inland floodingModerate

Albionmostly inland floodingLow

Amboymostly inland floodingLow

Mexicomostly inland floodingLow

Parishmostly 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. Parish covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Parish’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Parish. 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 Parish total about $498K 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.