Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Storms, floods and disasters in Eagles Mere
Eagles Mere isn’t graded for hazard risk: Eagles Mere has 99 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more.
What Eagles Mere 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 Eagles Mere flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Eagles Mere. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Eagles Mere isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Sullivan County.1 federal disaster brought FEMA money to Eagles Mere
Disasters that paid out in Eagles Mere itself (aid to households or repair grants to the Borough of Eagles Mere), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2011Tropical Storm Lee4 households applied for aid$12K aid approved
Sullivan County has had 19 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often severe storms, then floods. Not counted: the 2005 Hurricane Katrina evacuee emergency, which covered counties that took in evacuees.
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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 Eagles Mere
Is Eagles Mere 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 Sullivan County, 12% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 1.0% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Eagles Mere?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Eagles Mere’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 Eagles Mere?
By FEMA money that reached Eagles Mere, Tropical Storm Lee (2011): 4 households applied for aid, $12K approved.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Eagles Mere.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Eagles Mere’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.