Natural hazards · Bedminster

Bedminster, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bedminster comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 1988.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bedminster?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bedminster to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding67%Tornadoes6%Everything else28%

By hazard

What Bedminster 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

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 67 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Bedminster flood?

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

9paid claims since 1988

$196Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19882026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ida: 3 claims, $143K
Hurricane Floyd: 2 claims, $7K
Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $29K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bucks County.

Disasters that hit Bedminster

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BedminsterDeclared for Bucks County only

Bucks County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Bedminster

Bedminster and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Tinicummostly inland floodingModerate

Nockamixonmostly inland floodingLow

Haycockmostly inland floodingLow

East Rockhillmostly inland floodingLow

Plumsteadmostly inland floodingLow

Bedminstermostly inland floodingLow

Dublinmostly inland floodingVery low

Hilltownmostly 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. Bedminster covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Bedminster’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Bedminster. 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 Bedminster total about $2.5M 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.