Natural hazards · Wesley Hills

Wesley Hills, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wesley Hills comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2011. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wesley Hills?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wesley Hills to be higher than in 10% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding62%Cold waves9%Strong wind6%Tornadoes5%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Wesley Hills faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Wesley Hills flood?

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

3paid claims since 2011

$90Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20112026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $227
Vermont/New York Flooding: 1 claim, $87K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Rockland County.

Disasters that hit Wesley Hills

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Wesley Hills itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Village of Wesley Hills.

Brought FEMA money into Wesley HillsDeclared for Rockland County only

1999

Hurricane Floyd Major Disaster Declarations

$2K to the Village of Wesley Hills for repairs

Rockland County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Wesley Hills

Wesley Hills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pomonamostly inland floodingModerate

Wesley Hillsmostly inland floodingVery low

New Hempsteadmostly inland floodingVery low

Montebellomostly 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. Wesley Hills covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wesley Hills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Wesley Hills. 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 Wesley Hills total about $1.3M 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.