Natural hazards · Poquott

Poquott, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Poquott comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2004.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Poquott?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Poquott to be higher than in 9% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and coastal flooding.

Inland flooding41%Coastal flooding31%Hurricanes14%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Poquott faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 3% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Coastal flooding

31% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Poquott flood?

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

4paid claims since 2004

$307Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20042026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ida: 1 claim, $105K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Suffolk County.

Disasters that hit Poquott

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PoquottDeclared for Suffolk County only

Suffolk County has had 28 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

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. Poquott is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Poquott’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Poquott. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.