Vermont

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$22.8B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

28.23

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 14 counties

Landslide

64.07 Avg Risk Score

Hurricane

63.75 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

60.76 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

55.05 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

52.4 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

52.35 Avg Risk Score

Ice Storm

52.11 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

48.03 Avg Risk Score

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

winter-storm 5 events

$4.7B

severe-storm 1 events

$2.5B

tropical-cyclone 1 events

$13.5B

flooding 1 events

$2.2B

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	Windsor	56.92	Relatively Low	15.0%
2	Washington	56.76	Relatively Low	16.1%
3	Windham	48.62	Relatively Low	31.9%
4	Rutland	45.59	Very Low	39.6%
5	Chittenden	39.1	Very Low	22.1%
6	Franklin	27.11	Very Low	12.2%
7	Orleans	26.57	Very Low	35.5%
8	Caledonia	22.84	Very Low	28.4%
9	Orange	19.89	Very Low	9.4%
10	Bennington	18.9	Very Low	34.9%