Natural hazards · Pleasant Valley

Pleasant Valley, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant Valley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 47 claims here since 1981. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant Valley?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Valley to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding76%Hurricanes11%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Pleasant Valley faces

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

Inland flooding

76% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

11% 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 Pleasant Valley flood?

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

47paid claims since 1981

$1.3Mpaid to owners

10homes flooded more than once

19812026

Biggest named events

April 2007 Nor'easter: 15 claims, $686K
Hurricane Irene: 14 claims, $454K
Tropical Storm Lee: 1 claim, $11K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (3) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Pleasant Valley 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 Pleasant Valley

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant ValleyDeclared for Dutchess County only

2021

Remnants of Hurricane Ida

20 households applied for aid $30K aid approved

2017

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$46K to the Town of Pleasant Valley for repairs

2011

Hurricane Irene

83 households applied for aid $170K aid approved $163K to the Town of Pleasant Valley for repairs

2010

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$27K to the Town of Pleasant Valley for repairs

2007

Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding

33 households applied for aid $58K aid approved $133K to the Town of Pleasant Valley for repairs

2003

Snow

$30K to the Town of Pleasant Valley for repairs

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

Around Pleasant Valley

Pleasant Valley and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pleasant Valleymostly inland floodingHigh

Clintonmostly inland floodingModerate

LaGrangemostly inland floodingLow

Hyde Parkmostly inland floodingLow

Poughkeepsiemostly inland floodingLow

Washingtonmostly 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. Pleasant Valley covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pleasant Valley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Pleasant Valley. 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 Pleasant Valley total about $3.6M 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.