Natural hazards · Almedia

Almedia, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Almedia comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 208 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Almedia?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Almedia to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding88%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Almedia 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 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Almedia flood?

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

208paid claims since 1978

$7.6Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Lee: 92 claims, $6.4M
Tropical Storm Ivan: 14 claims, $158K
Not a named storm: 1 claim, $25K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Columbia County.

Disasters that hit Almedia

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AlmediaDeclared for Columbia County only

Columbia County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Almedia

Almedia and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Mainmostly inland floodingVery high

Almediamostly inland floodingHigh

Lime Ridgemostly inland floodingHigh

Espymostly inland floodingHigh

South Centremostly inland floodingHigh

Scottmostly 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. Almedia covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Almedia’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Almedia. 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 Almedia total about $2.1M 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.