Natural hazards · Pike Creek

Pike Creek, DE natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pike Creek comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1999.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Pike Creek?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pike Creek to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding77%Cold waves6%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Pike Creek faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

77% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Pike Creek flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Pike Creek, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 1999

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19992026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Floyd: 1 claim, $2K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Pike Creek isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: New Castle County.

Disasters that hit Pike Creek

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for New Castle County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Pike Creek itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Pike CreekDeclared for New Castle County only

New Castle County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Pike Creek

Pike Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pike Creek Valleymostly inland floodingHigh

Hockessinmostly inland floodingModerate

Pike Creekmostly inland floodingLow

North Starmostly inland floodingLow

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Pike Creek covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pike Creek’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pike Creek. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Pike Creek total about $2.0M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); 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. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.