Natural hazards · Braintrim

Braintrim, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Braintrim comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 119 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Braintrim?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Braintrim to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding91%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Braintrim 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 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once 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 Braintrim flood?

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

119paid claims since 1979

$2.6Mpaid to owners

19homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Lee: 36 claims, $1.8M
Tropical Storm Ivan: 14 claims, $260K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (4) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Braintrim isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Wyoming County.

Disasters that hit Braintrim

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BraintrimDeclared for Wyoming County only

Wyoming County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

Around Braintrim

Braintrim and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Braintrimmostly inland floodingVery high

Windhammostly inland floodingVery high

Laceyvillemostly inland floodingVery high

Meshoppenmostly inland floodingVery high

Tuscaroramostly inland floodingHigh

Auburnmostly inland floodingLow

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