Natural hazards · Abbott

Abbott, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Abbott comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1984.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Abbott?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Abbott to be higher than in 86% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding88%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Abbott faces

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

Inland flooding

88% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Abbott flood?

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

4paid claims since 1984

$35Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19842026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Debby: 1 claim, $23K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Potter County.

Disasters that hit Abbott

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AbbottDeclared for Potter County only

Potter County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Abbott

Abbott and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Whartonmostly inland floodingVery high

Abbottmostly inland floodingVery high

Stewardsonmostly inland floodingVery high

West Branchmostly inland floodingVery high

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. Abbott covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Abbott’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Abbott. 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 Abbott total about $1.4M 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.