Natural hazards · Boggs

Boggs, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Boggs comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Boggs?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Boggs to be higher than in 15% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Strong wind7%Cold waves6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Boggs faces

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

Inland flooding

71% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% 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 wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

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 Boggs flood?

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

5paid claims since 1997

$8Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Boggs 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 Boggs

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BoggsDeclared for Clearfield County only

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

Around Boggs

Boggs and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lawrencemostly inland floodingModerate

Knoxmostly inland floodingLow

Decaturmostly inland floodingLow

Boggsmostly inland floodingVery low

Bradfordmostly inland floodingVery low

Wallacetonmostly inland floodingVery low

Woodwardmostly inland floodingVery low

Grahammostly inland floodingVery low

Morrismostly 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. Boggs covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Boggs’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Boggs. 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 Boggs total about $1.1M 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.