Maine

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$27.1B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

58.9

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 16 counties

Ice Storm

90.24 Avg Risk Score

Hurricane

81.45 Avg Risk Score

Drought

74.54 Avg Risk Score

Coastal Flooding

68.19 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

65.49 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

63.38 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

62.53 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

52.88 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

winter-storm 8 events

$21.8B

flooding 2 events

$2.0B

tropical-cyclone 1 events

$0.9B

severe-storm 1 events

$2.5B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Cumberland	85.11	Relatively Moderate	14.1%
2	York	83.61	Relatively Moderate	13.0%
3	Kennebec	77.54	Relatively Low	35.7%
4	Penobscot	73.37	Relatively Low	44.2%
5	Hancock	69.14	Relatively Low	21.8%
6	Somerset	67.67	Relatively Low	30.0%
7	Androscoggin	67.26	Relatively Low	60.1%
8	Aroostook	60.55	Relatively Low	65.5%
9	Oxford	60.01	Relatively Low	34.5%
10	Washington	57.68	Relatively Low	66.9%