Natural hazards · Avonmore

Avonmore, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avonmore comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 2007. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Avonmore?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avonmore to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding86%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Avonmore faces

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

Inland flooding

86% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year 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 Avonmore flood?

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

5paid claims since 2007

$39Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20072026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Westmoreland County.

Disasters that hit Avonmore

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into AvonmoreDeclared for Westmoreland County only

2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

9 households applied for aid $17K aid approved

Westmoreland County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Avonmore

Avonmore and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Conemaughmostly inland floodingModerate

Avonmoremostly inland floodingLow

Bellmostly inland floodingLow

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