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Glocester, RI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glocester comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1983. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Glocester?

18
Very low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glocester to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding69%Hurricanes9%Heat waves7%Cold waves6%Everything else8%
By hazard

What Glocester 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 37% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage
Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Glocester flood?

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

6paid claims since 1983
$29Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19832026

Biggest named events

  • March 2010 Nor'easter: 2 claims, $4K
  • Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $2K
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Glocester isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Providence County.
Disasters that hit Glocester

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlocesterDeclared for Providence County only
2022

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$55K to the Town of Glocester for repairs
2015

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$38K to the Town of Glocester for repairs
2013

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$28K to the Town of Glocester for repairs
2011

Tropical Storm Irene

$47K to the Town of Glocester for repairs
2010

Severe Storms and Flooding

3 households applied for aid $4K aid approved $101K to the Town of Glocester for repairs
2005

Record Snow

$32K to the Town of Glocester for repairs
2003

Snow

$32K to the Town of Glocester for repairs
Providence County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.
Around Glocester

Glocester and the towns around it

Burrillville: Moderate, mostly inland floodingFoster: Low, mostly inland floodingSmithfield: Low, mostly inland floodingScituate: Low, mostly inland floodingKillingly: High, mostly inland floodingThompson: Moderate, mostly inland floodingNorth Smithfield: Low, mostly inland floodingDouglas: Low, mostly inland floodingSterling: High, mostly inland floodingCoventry: Low, mostly inland floodingLincoln: Low, mostly inland floodingJohnston: Low, mostly inland floodingNorth Providence: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCranston: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBrooklyn: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPomfret: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPutnam: High, mostly inland floodingDanielson: High, mostly inland floodingPlainfield: High, mostly inland floodingGlocester: Very low, mostly inland flooding GlocesterBurrillvilleFosterSmithfieldScituateKillingly
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Killinglymostly inland floodingHigh
Burrillvillemostly inland floodingModerate
Smithfieldmostly inland floodingLow
Scituatemostly inland floodingLow
Fostermostly inland floodingLow
Glocestermostly 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. Glocester covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Glocester’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Glocester. 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 Glocester total about $2.0M 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.

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