Androscoggin County, Maine: hazard history

FEMA declared 31 disasters that named Androscoggin County between 1970 and 2023.

Most recent declarations

• DR-4754 2023 · Severe Storm · Severe Storm And Flooding
• EM-3598 2023 · Hurricane · Hurricane Lee
• DR-4522 2020 · Biological · Covid-19 Pandemic
• EM-3444 2020 · Biological · Covid-19
• DR-4208 2015 · Snowstorm · Severe Winter Storm, Snowstorm, And Flooding
• DR-4108 2013 · Severe Storm · Severe Winter Storm, Snowstorm, And Flooding
• DR-1815 2008 · Severe Storm · Severe Winter Storm And Flooding
• DR-1788 2008 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Flooding, And Tornadoes
• DR-1693 2007 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms And Inland And Coastal Flooding
• EM-3256 2005 · Hurricane · Hurricane Katrina Evacuation

Not counted above: 4 statewide declarations, which covered every county in Maine. A declaration is a decision to send federal help, not a measure of how bad an event was. Records run from 1953. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.

Records start in 1996. Damage is NOAA's estimate at the time, in nominal dollars, and is often rounded; it is not insurance claims data. A storm that crossed two NOAA zones in this county is recorded, and counted, once per zone. A storm filed against a forecast zone is counted in every county that zone covers, with the whole storm's damage; do not add these figures across counties.

NOAA storm event records in Androscoggin County each year. The busiest year was 2000, with 37 records.

Years with no record are left out of the table, not shown as zero.

Costliest records

1. Ice Storm · Jan 5, 1998$31.0M
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 5639227
2. Flood · May 1, 2023$1.4M
   NOAA name: Androscoggin County · NOAA record 1101866
3. Flood · Apr 16, 2007$1.3M
   NOAA name: Androscoggin County · NOAA record 30074
4. Flash Flood · Aug 16, 2008$1.2M
   NOAA name: Androscoggin County · NOAA record 133969
5. Ice Storm · Dec 21, 2013$627K
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 491655

Deadliest records

1. Strong Wind · Dec 22, 19981 death
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 5676902

Each line is one NOAA record, linked to its page at NOAA. One large storm can appear more than once if NOAA recorded it in several zones of this county. Dollars are nominal.

The National Flood Insurance Program paid $1.1M on 146 claims in Androscoggin County from 1978 to 2024.

A count of claims, not a rate: NFIP publishes no count of insured homes beside it, and most flood damage is uninsured. Nominal dollars. Records run from 1978 to 2024; claims filed without a county code are not on any county page. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

A hazard vulnerability analysis rates each hazard for probability, impact, preparedness and response. Probability is the one column the county’s federal record can fill — NCEI storm events from 1996 to 2026 and FEMA declarations naming the county — and this is what it says for a facility here, on the 0–3 scale of the all-hazards structure surveyors expect. The other six columns are the facility’s own judgment about its building, and Calchis leaves them blank.

A dash means the record does not speak to that hazard; it is not a zero. Whether a finished document satisfies the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule is the facility’s finding and its surveyor’s. Complete the HVA for a facility in Androscoggin County — the technological, human and hazardous-materials rows, the six facility columns, the approval and the printed document — or read the sample analysis on that page first.

• Every figure is counted from public federal records held by Calchis: NOAA NCEI Storm Events, FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations, and FEMA NFIP claims. Nothing is modeled or estimated.
• NOAA files some events against a county and others against an NWS forecast zone, and publishes a code for both. Records are counted as Androscoggin County by that code — county records by the county's own FIPS code, zone records through the National Weather Service's published list of which counties each zone covers. No name matching is involved. Of 548 records, 226 were filed against this county and 322 against a forecast zone covering it. A zone storm is counted in every county its zone covers, and its damage figure is the whole storm's, not this county's share — NOAA does not publish that split. So these figures describe this county; they must not be added up across counties.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.