Natural hazards · Bigler

Bigler, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bigler comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bigler?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bigler to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Strong wind6%Cold waves5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Bigler 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 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Bigler flood?

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

8paid claims since 1981

$46Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 3 claims, $33K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clearfield County.

Disasters that hit Bigler

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BiglerDeclared for Clearfield County only

Clearfield County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Bigler

Bigler and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Beccariamostly inland floodingHigh

Biglermostly inland floodingLow

Knoxmostly inland floodingLow

Glen Hopemostly inland floodingLow

Jordanmostly inland floodingLow

Woodwardmostly inland floodingVery low

Gulichmostly inland floodingVery low

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