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 high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 29 claims here since 1978. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Boggs?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Boggs to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding91%Everything else9%

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

91% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

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.

29paid claims since 1978

$116Kpaid to owners

4homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 4 claims, $38K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

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: Armstrong County.

Disasters that hit Boggs

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Boggs itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Boggs.

Brought FEMA money into BoggsDeclared for Armstrong County only

2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

$8K to the Township of Boggs for repairs

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

Around Boggs

Boggs and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Washingtonmostly inland floodingVery high

Pinemostly inland floodingVery high

Boggsmostly inland floodingHigh

Valleymostly inland floodingHigh

Rayburnmostly inland floodingHigh

Waynemostly inland floodingHigh

Mahoningmostly inland floodingHigh

East Franklinmostly inland floodingModerate

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 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 Boggs’s own flood-insurance community; 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.

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.