Natural hazards · Pemberton Heights

Pemberton Heights, NJ natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pemberton Heights?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pemberton Heights to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding51%Hurricanes7%Earthquakes7%Strong wind7%Heat waves6%Everything else22%

By hazard

What Pemberton Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 6% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Pemberton Heights flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Burlington County.

Disasters that hit Pemberton Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pemberton HeightsDeclared for Burlington County only

Burlington County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

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. Pemberton Heights 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 Pemberton Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pemberton Heights. 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.

Pemberton Heights, NJ natural hazards

How exposed is Pemberton Heights?

What Pemberton Heights faces

Inland flooding

Hurricanes

Earthquakes

Strong wind

Heat waves

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Pemberton Heights flood?

Federal disasters declared here

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