Natural hazards · Beaver Meadows

Beaver Meadows, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Beaver Meadows comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Beaver Meadows?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Beaver Meadows to be higher than in 17% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding48%Cold waves18%Heat waves10%Strong wind6%Lightning6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Beaver Meadows faces

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

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 9% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslides

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 Meadows flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Beaver Meadows.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carbon County.

Disasters that hit Beaver Meadows

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Beaver MeadowsDeclared for Carbon County only

2006

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

4 households applied for aid $4K aid approved

2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

2 households applied for aid

Carbon County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes 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. Beaver Meadows 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 Beaver Meadows’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Beaver Meadows. 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.