Natural hazards · Woodsville

Woodsville, NY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Woodsville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Woodsville?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Woodsville to be higher than in 61% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Woodsville faces

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

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Woodsville flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Livingston County.

Disasters that hit Woodsville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WoodsvilleDeclared for Livingston County only

Livingston County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Woodsville

Woodsville and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Woodsvillemostly inland floodingHigh

West Spartamostly inland floodingHigh

North Dansvillemostly inland floodingModerate

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