Natural hazards · Victory

Victory, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Victory comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Victory?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Victory to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding77%Everything else23%

By hazard

What Victory faces

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

Inland flooding

77% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% 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 Victory flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cayuga County.

Disasters that hit Victory

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into VictoryDeclared for Cayuga County only

2004

Snow

$5K to the Town of Victory for repairs

2003

Ice Storm

$25K to the Town of Victory for repairs

Cayuga County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Victory

Victory and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Conquestmostly inland floodingHigh

Sterlingmostly inland floodingModerate

Victorymostly inland floodingLow

Wolcottmostly inland floodingVery low

Iramostly inland floodingVery low

Butlermostly 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. Victory covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Victory’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Victory. 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 Victory total about $333K 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.