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Winhall, VT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Winhall comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 2011. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Winhall?

19
Very low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Winhall to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding66%Cold waves21%Hurricanes6%Everything else8%
By hazard

What Winhall faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

21% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Winhall flood?

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

5paid claims since 2011
$111Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
20112026

Biggest named events

  • Hurricane Irene: 5 claims, $111K
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Winhall isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Bennington County.
Disasters that hit Winhall

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WinhallDeclared for Bennington County only
2023

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$384K to the Town of Winhall for repairs
2019

Severe Storms and Flooding

$11K to the Town of Winhall for repairs
2011

Tropical Storm Irene

6 households applied for aid $7K aid approved $184K to the Town of Winhall for repairs
2007

Severe Storms and Flooding

$7K to the Town of Winhall for repairs
2001

Snow

$5K to the Town of Winhall for repairs
Bennington County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Winhall

Winhall and the towns around it

Manchester: Low, mostly inland floodingStratton: Very low, mostly inland floodingSunderland: High, mostly inland floodingJamaica: High, mostly inland floodingLondonderry: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPeru: Very low, mostly inland floodingDorset: Low, mostly inland floodingSandgate: High, mostly inland floodingWardsboro: Very low, mostly inland floodingDover: Very low, mostly inland floodingArlington: High, mostly inland floodingTownshend: High, mostly inland floodingWindham: High, mostly inland floodingLandgrove: Very low, mostly inland floodingWeston: Low, mostly inland floodingMount Tabor: Moderate, mostly inland floodingDanby: Moderate, mostly inland floodingRupert: Low, mostly inland floodingWinhall: Very low, mostly inland flooding WinhallManchesterStrattonSunderlandJamaicaLondonderryPeruDorset
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Sunderlandmostly inland floodingHigh
Jamaicamostly inland floodingHigh
Londonderrymostly inland floodingModerate
Manchestermostly inland floodingLow
Dorsetmostly inland floodingLow
Winhallmostly inland floodingVery low
Perumostly inland floodingVery low
Strattonmostly 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. Winhall 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 Winhall’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Winhall. 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.

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