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Newport, VT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Newport comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1982. 8 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Newport?

30
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Newport to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Cold waves11%Earthquakes5%Everything else13%
By hazard

What Newport faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Newport flood?

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

4paid claims since 1982
$45Kpaid to owners
1homes flooded more than once
19822026

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Newport isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Orleans County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared
Disasters that hit Newport

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into NewportDeclared for Orleans County only
2024

Severe Storm, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

8 households applied for aid $23K aid approved
2023

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

27 households applied for aid $94K aid approved
2013

Severe Winter Storms

$28K to the City of Newport for repairs
2011

Tropical Storm Irene

2 households applied for aid
2011

Severe Storms and Flooding

11 households applied for aid $13K aid approved
2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

$9K to the City of Newport for repairs
2002

Severe Storms and Flooding

$13K to the City of Newport for repairs
2001

Snow

$8K to the City of Newport for repairs
Orleans County has had 29 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Newport

Newport and the towns around it

Derby: Low, mostly inland floodingNewport: Low, mostly inland floodingCoventry: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCharleston: High, mostly inland floodingHolland: High, mostly inland floodingBrownington: Moderate, mostly inland floodingTroy: Low, mostly inland floodingIrasburg: Moderate, mostly inland floodingNewport: Low, mostly inland flooding NewportDerbyNewportCoventry
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Coventrymostly inland floodingModerate
Newportmostly inland floodingLow
Derbymostly inland floodingLow
Newportmostly 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. Newport covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Newport’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Newport. 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 Newport 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.

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