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The hamlet of Fort Salonga · Towns of Huntington and Smithtown
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Since 1978, federal flood insurance has paid $11.2 million on 493 claims in ZIP 11768, which takes in Fort Salonga, so water has reached homes here before.
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Flood risk: HighFlood zone. 68 of the 3,439 addresses here are inside FEMA's mapped flood zone. 42 more are within about 100 ft of its edge.
If your home is in it, most mortgage lenders must require flood insurance. That is a separate policy from homeowner's insurance, which usually covers a burst pipe or leaking appliance.
The percentage above counts all developed land, including lawns, parks and roads, not just homes.
Each square is about 850 ft across. Color shows how many of its addresses are mapped inside the zone:
- Fewer than half
- Half or more
- All
Groundwater. At 169 of the 3,439 addresses measured here, groundwater is within 14 ft of the surface, close enough to reach a basement floor.
In those basements, water can seep up through the floor and come back after pumping. At the other 3,270, water in a basement usually comes in from above.
Each square is about 850 ft across. Color shows the typical depth under its addresses (USGS map, spring 2013):
- Within 10 ft103
- 10 to 14 ft66
- 14 to 25 ft194
- Deeper than 25 ft3,076
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Why water gets into Fort Salonga homes
In Fort Salonga, flooding is the outside risk, and inside the house the risks are a full or failing cesspool, a wet basement, a pipe that freezes and splits and old plumbing leaking inside the walls.
- Water coming in from outside. Flood insurance covers only basics below ground level, such as the furnace, the water heater, the electrical panel and unfinished walls, not finished floors or belongings stored there. In Fort Salonga, 5.7% of the built-up land is inside FEMA's flood zone, and homes there with a federally backed mortgage are required to carry flood insurance. Since 1978, policyholders in ZIP 11768 have filed 493 federal flood insurance claims, a record of flood water reaching buildings in this ZIP. Look up your street. Storm Damage Restoration help
- Sewage coming up a drain. Sewage in the house is contaminated water, so it needs a crew that cleans, disinfects and dries, not a mop and a fan. Homes in Fort Salonga treat their own wastewater in a cesspool or septic tank, so when the system is full, slow drains and gurgling pipes come before sewage in the lowest drain. Cesspool Overflow help in Fort Salonga
- Water in the basement. Homeowners policies usually exclude groundwater seeping in, so photograph the damage and read your policy before the cleanup starts. The 80 ft average hides a spread: on some Fort Salonga streets groundwater comes close enough to a basement floor to seep in after a wet spell. Basement Flooding help in Fort Salonga
- A burst pipe. If a pipe bursts, shut the main water valve first; a split supply line keeps running at full pressure until someone does. In a hard freeze the pipes that split are the ones in outside walls and crawlspaces, and Fort Salonga's houses, about 64 years old on average, have plenty of them. Frozen Pipe Burst help in Fort Salonga
- A leak in a wall or ceiling. An old shutoff valve can seize, so find the main valve and test that it turns before the day you need it. With 68% of its homes built before 1970, Fort Salonga has a lot of original plumbing, and an old pipe tends to fail slowly, as a stain or a soft floor, before it fails all at once. Ceiling & Roof Leak Water Damage help
Insurance and safety guidance from FEMA FloodSmart, the CDC and the Red Cross. How we measured the figures.
Street by street in Fort Salonga
See how many of its addresses are mapped inside the FEMA flood zone and how deep groundwater is mapped under it.
206 streets, from county address records. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Streets inside the FEMA flood zone
68 of 3,439 address points in Fort Salonga are mapped inside a FEMA special flood hazard area. These streets hold the most of them:
- Makamah Beach Rd — 53 of 53 addresses
- Waterside Rd — 8 of 45 addresses
Quick facts — Fort Salonga
Flood and storm
- FEMA flood zone
- AE (100-yr floodplain)
- Hurricane Sandy high-water mark
- 7.9 ft The one mark USGS surveyed in Fort Salonga after the 2012 storm, in feet above the NAVD88 datum — a reading at one point, not a level across all of Fort Salonga. Ground elevation here averages 93 ft on the same datum.
- Water nearby
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Long Island Sound to the north, Smithtown Bay to the north and Northport Basin to the west.
Each direction is to its nearest point, from the center of Fort Salonga.
All 7 named water features
- North: Long Island Sound, Smithtown Bay, Fresh Pond
- East: Sunken Meadow Creek, Nissequogue River
- West: Northport Basin, Blanchard Lake
In an emergency
- Nearest fire department
- Northport Fire Department, Kings Park Fire Department
- ZIP code
- 11768
Homes here
- Sewer status
- Unsewered (Cesspool/Septic)
- When homes were built
- Spread across decades The highlighted 1950s band is the largest, at 26%, but its lead over the 1960s band (24%) is inside the Census margin of error (10 points), so no decade clearly leads in Fort Salonga. Most homes here are over 30 years old. Past that age, an insurance-industry study (IBHS) found supply and drain pipe problems three times as likely.
Fort Salonga's land area
- FEMA coastal wave zone (VE)
- FEMA 100-year floodplain (AE)
- The flood-zone figure above says how much of the land these zones cover.
Sources: FEMA NFHL / NOAA SLOSH, US Census ACS, USDA SSURGO, Suffolk County records. Verified 2026-10-18. How we measured this.
Fort Salonga and nearby areas
2 of the other 5 areas compared here have a larger mapped floodplain share than Fort Salonga.
- Asharoken 63.7%
- Nissequogue 11.0%
- Fort Salonga 5.7%
- Northport 3.1%
- Kings Park 1.7%
- East Northport 0.0%
- San Remo —
Share of developed area inside FEMA's mapped floodplain, largest first. No figure is shown for San Remo: it has no boundary of its own to measure.
1 of the other 5 areas compared here has shallower average groundwater than Fort Salonga.
- Asharoken 14 ft
- Fort Salonga 80 ft
- Northport 81 ft
- Kings Park 85 ft
- Nissequogue 88 ft
- East Northport 153 ft
- San Remo —
Average depth to groundwater, shallowest first. No figure is shown for San Remo: it has no boundary of its own to measure.
1 of the other 5 areas compared here has lower average ground than Fort Salonga.
- Asharoken 12 ft
- Northport 93 ft
- Fort Salonga 93 ft
- Nissequogue 94 ft
- Kings Park 121 ft
- East Northport 202 ft
- San Remo —
Average height above sea level, lowest first. No figure is shown for San Remo: it has no boundary of its own to measure.
Across the 6 areas around Fort Salonga the flood-zone share averages 15.1%. Here it is 5.7%. Less of Fort Salonga's developed land is in a mapped flood zone than in the areas around it.
Compared with the areas around Fort Salonga. How we measured them.
Frequently asked questions about Fort Salonga
Is Fort Salonga in a flood zone?
Fort Salonga's FEMA-mapped flood zone is AE (100-yr floodplain), covering about 5.7% of the developed area, per FEMA's flood map (NFHL).
Does Fort Salonga have public sewer, or cesspools?
Fort Salonga is unsewered — nearly every property runs on its own cesspool or septic system.
How old are homes in Fort Salonga?
The average home in Fort Salonga is about 64 years old, and 68% of the housing stock predates 1970 — older plumbing and unwaterproofed foundations are a common factor in local water damage.
How deep is the water table in Fort Salonga?
The measured water table runs about 80 ft below the surface on average across Fort Salonga. It is mapped within 10 ft at 103 of 3,439 addresses and within 25 ft at 363.
About the figures for Fort Salonga
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Who to call for water damage in Fort Salonga
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