Natural hazards · Avis

Avis, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avis comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1991. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Avis?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avis to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding81%Strong wind9%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Avis faces

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

Inland flooding

81% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

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 Avis flood?

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

3paid claims since 1991

$4Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19912026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clinton County.

Disasters that hit Avis

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Avis itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Borough of Avis.

Brought FEMA money into AvisDeclared for Clinton County only

2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

7 households applied for aid $10K aid approved

Clinton County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Avis 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 Avis’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Avis. 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.