Westchester County
Mold Removal in the Village of Mamaroneck, Where the Basement Has Flooded Before
In the Village of Mamaroneck the useful question after a storm is what the last flood left behind the walls, and an assessment answers it before you pay to refinish over it. The county plan places 1,035 of the village's 5,699 buildings in the mapped flood area, 18.2 percent and the highest share in Westchester, and FEMA paid 107 more village claims after the September 2023 storm, barely two years after Ida.
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Mamaroneck's share of the county's mapped flood area
The county plan estimates 1,035 of the Village of Mamaroneck's 5,699 buildings, 18.2 percent, are in the mapped 1 percent annual chance flood area, the highest share in the county, carrying 29.2 percent of the village's replacement cost value. It also estimates the largest single-municipality flood loss, about $457.4 million.
Source: Westchester County Department of Planning, 2021 Westchester County Countywide Hazard Mitigation Plan, Section 5.4.3 Flood, Table 5.3.2-6, accessed 2026-09-23
Per FEMA's NFIP claims records as of September 8, 2026, the Village of Mamaroneck has 1,766 paid flood claims totaling about $63.6 million, the most in the county, and 294 of them, about $27.2 million, are dated to Ida. Another 107 paid claims are dated to the September 28 to 30, 2023 storm.
Source: FEMA, OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3 (dataset as of 2026-09-08), Westchester County, analyzed 2026-09-23, accessed 2026-09-23
The S500 text quoted by the consensus body lists information a restorer gathers to decide the category of water, including the "source, date, and time of water intrusion", the "status of water source control", "history of previous water damage", "types of materials affected" and "age of structure".
Source: ANSI/IICRC S500 Consensus Body, Position Statement: Category of Water Damage and Weather-related Events, March 16, 2026 (citing ANSI/IICRC S500, 5th Edition, 2021), accessed 2026-09-23
In the 2020-2024 American Community Survey, Mamaroneck village has 7,858 housing units; 38.1 percent were built in 1939 or earlier and 78.4 percent before 1980.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, table B25034 Year Structure Built, accessed 2026-09-23
Of the paid NFIP claims in Westchester County with a recorded basement or enclosure type (6,434 claims), 5,872, about 91 percent, were for buildings with a basement, and 3,640, about 57 percent, were for buildings with a finished basement, per FEMA's claims records as of September 8, 2026.
Source: FEMA, OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3 (dataset as of 2026-09-08), Westchester County, analyzed 2026-09-23, accessed 2026-09-23
Was this basement refinished after Ida?
Tell us which storms it took and what was redone since. That history decides whether the assessor opens a wall or just checks the surface.
Two floods in two years in the Village of Mamaroneck
This page means the Village of Mamaroneck, the place the county's flood figures describe, rather than the Town of the same name. Here a basement is seldom meeting water for the first time. With 294 paid claims for Ida and another 107 for the 2023 storm, plenty of village lower levels were dried, closed up and refinished between two floods, and moisture held behind drywall from the first one is exactly what a quick cleanup after the second one misses. The S500 standard lists the history of previous water damage among the things a restorer needs to decide what kind of job this is, so bring the dates you know, including work done by a previous owner. Close to four in ten village homes predate 1940, and across the county most paid flood claims were for buildings with a finished basement, so plan any rebuild around the next event rather than the last one.
What we arrange for a village lower level that keeps taking water
Mold Inspection and Assessment
Find out in writing what kind of water reached your Westchester home, how far into the building it got, and whether there is a mold job to do at all.
Mold Inspection in Mamaroneck →Mold Remediation and Removal
Get the mold in your Westchester home removed by a licensed firm working to an independent assessor's written plan, with the moisture source named so the work is not undone.
Mold Remediation in Mamaroneck →Water Damage Drying and Dry Out
Get a wet basement or room in your Westchester home dried properly before mold has a chance to start, in the order the kind of water calls for.
Water Damage Drying in Mamaroneck →Send the village address and the flood dates you know
We use them to line up an independent assessor who looks behind the finishes, and a separate licensed firm for any removal the report calls for.