Natural hazards · Braddock Hills

Braddock Hills, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Braddock Hills comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Braddock Hills?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Braddock Hills to be higher than in 9% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Cold waves14%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Braddock Hills faces

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

Inland flooding

74% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Braddock Hills flood?

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

3paid claims since 1978

$42Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19782026

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. Braddock Hills isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Allegheny County.

Disasters that hit Braddock Hills

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Braddock HillsDeclared for Allegheny County only

Allegheny County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Braddock Hills

Braddock Hills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

North Braddockmostly inland floodingLow

Swissvalemostly inland floodingVery low

Braddock Hillsmostly inland floodingVery low

Forest Hillsmostly inland floodingVery low

Edgewoodmostly inland floodingVery low

Wilkinsburgmostly 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. Braddock Hills covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Braddock Hills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Braddock Hills. 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 Braddock Hills total about $306K 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.