Storms, floods and disasters in Davidsville
Davidsville isn’t graded for hazard risk: Davidsville has 826 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more. Flood insurance has paid 25 claims here since 1978.
What Davidsville faces
Each hazard’s share of the building damage FEMA expects here, and how its rate compares with the rest of the country.
River and rain flooding
Shares are of FEMA’s expected building damage, the measure the grade uses; ranks compare each hazard’s building-damage rate with all 85,154 U.S. census tracts. In FEMA’s terms, river and rain flooding is FEMA’s “Inland Flooding” (rivers and streams overflowing their banks, or rain overwhelming drainage). FEMA defines coastal flooding as high or rising tides and storm surge, so surge damage is counted there. Drought isn’t listed: FEMA counts its losses in crops only.
Does Davidsville flood? Sometimes: 25 flood claims since 1978
Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Davidsville, from FEMA’s records.
- Tropical Storm Ivan1 claim · $6K
Davidsville isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Somerset County.The storms Davidsville remembers
None of the 17 disasters declared for Somerset County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Davidsville itself in FEMA’s records, so these are its biggest flood-claim years.
- 199613 flood claims paidThe year of Severe Storms and Flooding, declared for Somerset County
- 19783 flood claims paidNo declaration for the county that year
- 20082 flood claims paidNo declaration for the county that year
Somerset County has had 17 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often floods, then winter storms. Not counted: the 2005 Hurricane Katrina evacuee emergency, which covered counties that took in evacuees.
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Add to the Davidsville archive →Get ready for what Davidsville faces
A short kit for the hazards that drive the building damage here, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
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Questions about natural hazards in Davidsville
Does Davidsville flood?
Flood insurance has paid 25 claims in Davidsville since 1978, $271K in all. The most claims came from Tropical Storm Ivan (1).
Is Davidsville in a flood zone?
Flood zones are drawn street by street, so the answer depends on the address: look it up on FEMA’s flood map. In Somerset County, 16% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 0.9% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Davidsville?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Davidsville’s flood program. Premiums depend on the building; policies usually start 30 days after you buy, so get a quote early.
What was the biggest storm in Davidsville?
By flood claims, Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 paid, $6K.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Davidsville.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Davidsville’s residents lived in the 2020 census; 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. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. FEMA’s model is an average of expected damage, not a forecast. How hazard risk is graded.