Natural hazards · Stockbridge

Stockbridge, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Stockbridge comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Stockbridge?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Stockbridge to be higher than in 29% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Tornadoes7%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Stockbridge faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 80 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Stockbridge flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Madison County.

Disasters that hit Stockbridge

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into StockbridgeDeclared for Madison County only

2013

Severe Storms and Flooding

$31K to the Town of Stockbridge for repairs

2006

Severe Storms and Flooding

$3K to the Town of Stockbridge for repairs

2005

Severe Storms and Flooding

$4K to the Town of Stockbridge for repairs

2003

Ice Storm

$8K to the Town of Stockbridge for repairs

2002

Snowstorms

$3K to the Town of Stockbridge for repairs

Madison County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Stockbridge

Stockbridge and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Oneidamostly inland floodingHigh

Lincolnmostly inland floodingModerate

Vernonmostly inland floodingModerate

Eatonmostly inland floodingModerate

Augustamostly inland floodingLow

Stockbridgemostly inland floodingLow

Smithfieldmostly 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. Stockbridge covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Stockbridge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Stockbridge. 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 Stockbridge total about $755K 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.