Natural hazards · Bradys Bend

Bradys Bend, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bradys Bend comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 22 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bradys Bend?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bradys Bend to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding93%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Bradys Bend 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 93% 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 Bradys Bend flood?

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

22paid claims since 1980

$383Kpaid to owners

3homes flooded more than once

19802026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 5 claims, $44K

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. Bradys Bend 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 Bradys Bend

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Bradys BendDeclared for Armstrong County only

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

Around Bradys Bend

Bradys Bend and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Bradys Bendmostly inland floodingHigh

Perrymostly inland floodingHigh

Sugarcreekmostly inland floodingHigh

East Bradymostly inland floodingHigh

Bradymostly inland floodingHigh

Madisonmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Bradys Bend covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Bradys Bend’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Bradys Bend. 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 Bradys Bend total about $1.6M 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.