Natural hazards · Barr

Barr, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Barr comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Barr?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Barr to be higher than in 4% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding67%Cold waves8%Tornadoes8%Hurricanes5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Barr faces

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

Inland flooding

67% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 14% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 56 years in the area

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 25 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Barr flood?

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

3paid claims since 1979

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cambria County.

Disasters that hit Barr

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BarrDeclared for Cambria County only

Cambria County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Barr

Barr and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Northern Cambriamostly inland floodingModerate

Blacklickmostly inland floodingVery low

Pinemostly inland floodingVery low

Barrmostly inland floodingVery low

Susquehannamostly inland floodingVery low

West Carrollmostly inland floodingVery low

Cambriamostly inland floodingVery low

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. Barr covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Barr’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Barr. 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 Barr total about $724K 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.