Natural hazards · Woodsburgh

Woodsburgh, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Woodsburgh comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 43 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Woodsburgh?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Woodsburgh to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding69%Coastal flooding9%Earthquakes8%Hurricanes8%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Woodsburgh faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Coastal flooding

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Woodsburgh flood?

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

43paid claims since 1979

$4.6Mpaid to owners

5homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Sandy: 28 claims, $4.3M
Hurricane Irene: 4 claims, $164K
Not a named storm: 2 claims, $5K

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. Woodsburgh isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Nassau County.

Disasters that hit Woodsburgh

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WoodsburghDeclared for Nassau County only

Nassau County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Woodsburgh

Woodsburgh and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Woodsburghmostly inland floodingLow

Hewlett Neckmostly inland floodingLow

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