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Natural hazards · Pompey

Pompey, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pompey comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1981. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Pompey?

36
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pompey to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding80%Everything else21%
By hazard

What Pompey faces

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

Inland flooding

80% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 64% 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 Pompey flood?

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

7paid claims since 1981
$91Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19812026

Biggest named events

  • Hurricane Sandy: 1 claim, $57K
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Pompey isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Onondaga County.
Disasters that hit Pompey

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into PompeyDeclared for Onondaga County only
2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

$53K to the Town of Pompey for repairs
2003

Ice Storm

4 households applied for aid $289 aid approved
2000

Severe Storms and Flooding

$18K to the Town of Pompey for repairs
Onondaga County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.
Around Pompey

Pompey and the towns around it

Cazenovia: Low, mostly inland floodingManlius: High, mostly inland floodingLaFayette: Low, mostly inland floodingFabius: Very low, mostly inland floodingFenner: Moderate, mostly inland floodingNelson: Very low, mostly inland floodingDeRuyter: Moderate, mostly inland floodingSullivan: High, mostly inland floodingDeWitt: Very low, mostly inland floodingCicero: Low, mostly inland floodingOtisco: Very low, mostly inland floodingOnondaga: Very low, mostly inland floodingTully: Very low, mostly inland floodingCuyler: High, mostly inland floodingTruxton: High, mostly inland floodingPompey: Low, mostly inland flooding PompeyCazenoviaManliusLaFayetteFabius
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Manliusmostly inland floodingHigh
Pompeymostly inland floodingLow
Cazenoviamostly inland floodingLow
LaFayettemostly inland floodingLow
Fabiusmostly 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. Pompey covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pompey’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Pompey. 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 Pompey total about $2.1M 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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