Natural hazards · Pylesville

Pylesville, MD natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pylesville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pylesville?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pylesville to be higher than in 12% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding52%Drought12%Hurricanes9%Heat waves8%Cold waves6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Pylesville faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Drought

12% of expected damage

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 4% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Pylesville flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Pylesville.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Harford County.

Disasters that hit Pylesville

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Harford County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Pylesville itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into PylesvilleDeclared for Harford County only

Harford County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and hurricanes.

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. Pylesville is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

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

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.