Natural hazards · Barry

Barry, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Barry comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2010.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Barry?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Barry to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Hurricanes9%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Barry faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 Barry flood?

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

4paid claims since 2010

$49Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20102026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Sandy: 1 claim, $10K

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. Barry isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Schuylkill County.

Disasters that hit Barry

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BarryDeclared for Schuylkill County only

Schuylkill County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Barry

Barry and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Butlermostly inland floodingHigh

Fostermostly inland floodingHigh

Barrymostly inland floodingModerate

Eldredmostly inland floodingModerate

Heginsmostly 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. Barry 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 Barry’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Barry. 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.