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Pittstown, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pittstown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1998. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Pittstown?

43
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pittstown to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding69%Tornadoes8%Hail7%Everything else17%
By hazard

What Pittstown faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 78 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage
Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Pittstown flood?

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

5paid claims since 1998
$49Kpaid to owners
1homes flooded more than once
19982026

Biggest named events

  • Hurricane Irene: 3 claims, $25K

Homes that flooded again and again

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

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

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into PittstownDeclared for Rensselaer County only
2017

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$38K to the Town of Pittstown for repairs
2011

Hurricane Irene

$106K to the Town of Pittstown for repairs
2010

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$36K to the Town of Pittstown for repairs
2008

Severe Winter Storm

$132K to the Town of Pittstown for repairs
2006

Severe Storms and Flooding

$14K to the Town of Pittstown for repairs
2002

Snowstorms

$27K to the Town of Pittstown for repairs
2000

Severe Storms and Flooding

$36K to the Town of Pittstown for repairs
Rensselaer County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.
Around Pittstown

Pittstown and the towns around it

Schaghticoke: Moderate, mostly inland floodingHoosick: Moderate, mostly inland floodingGrafton: Very low, mostly inland floodingCambridge: Low, mostly inland floodingBrunswick: Low, mostly inland floodingHalfmoon: Very low, mostly inland floodingStillwater: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWaterford: High, mostly inland floodingTroy: High, mostly inland floodingStillwater: Very high, mostly inland floodingMechanicville: Very high, mostly inland floodingEaston: Low, mostly inland floodingWhite Creek: High, mostly inland floodingBennington: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPetersburgh: Very high, mostly inland floodingPoestenkill: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBerlin: High, mostly inland floodingJackson: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCambridge: High, mostly inland floodingNorth Greenbush: Low, mostly inland floodingPittstown: Moderate, mostly inland flooding PittstownSchaghticokeHoosickGraftonCambridgeBrunswick
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Schaghticokemostly inland floodingModerate
Hoosickmostly inland floodingModerate
Pittstownmostly inland floodingModerate
Cambridgemostly inland floodingLow
Brunswickmostly inland floodingLow
Graftonmostly 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. Pittstown covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pittstown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Pittstown. 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 Pittstown total about $1.3M 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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