Natural hazards · Richville

Richville, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Richville 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 Richville?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding64%Cold waves19%Earthquakes8%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Richville faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

19% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Richville flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: St. Lawrence County.

Disasters that hit Richville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RichvilleDeclared for St. Lawrence County only

St. Lawrence County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

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. Richville 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 Richville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Richville. 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.