Natural hazards · Beaver Falls

Beaver Falls, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Beaver Falls comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1979. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Beaver Falls?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Beaver Falls to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding87%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Beaver Falls faces

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

Inland flooding

87% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times 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 Beaver Falls flood?

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

5paid claims since 1979

$6Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 1 claim, $370

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Beaver County.

Disasters that hit Beaver Falls

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Beaver Falls itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Beaver Falls.

Brought FEMA money into Beaver FallsDeclared for Beaver County only

2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

23 households applied for aid $66K aid approved

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding Associated With Tropical Depression Frances

17 households applied for aid $50K aid approved

Beaver County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Beaver Falls

Beaver Falls and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

New Brightonmostly inland floodingModerate

North Sewickleymostly inland floodingModerate

Beaver Fallsmostly inland floodingLow

Daughertymostly inland floodingLow

Eastvalemostly inland floodingLow

Big Beavermostly inland floodingVery low

West Mayfieldmostly inland floodingVery low

Whitemostly 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. Beaver Falls covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Beaver Falls’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Beaver Falls. 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 Beaver Falls total about $2.0M 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.