Natural hazards · Brady

Brady, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brady comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 11 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brady?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brady to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding93%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Brady faces

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

Inland flooding

93% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Brady flood?

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

11paid claims since 1978

$148Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 3 claims, $94K

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

Insurance rates: Butler County.

Disasters that hit Brady

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BradyDeclared for Butler County only

Butler County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Brady

Brady and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Bradymostly inland floodingHigh

West Libertymostly inland floodingHigh

Worthmostly inland floodingHigh

Claymostly inland floodingLow

Slippery Rockmostly inland floodingLow

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