Natural hazards · Brecknock

Brecknock, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brecknock comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brecknock?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brecknock to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding53%Hurricanes13%Cold waves8%Tornadoes7%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Brecknock faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 96 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Brecknock flood?

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

14paid claims since 1978

$127Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ida: 3 claims, $40K

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

Insurance rates: Berks County.

Disasters that hit Brecknock

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrecknockDeclared for Berks County only

Berks County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Brecknock

Brecknock and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brecknockmostly inland floodingHigh

Robesonmostly inland floodingLow

Caernarvonmostly inland floodingLow

Brecknockmostly inland floodingLow

Springmostly inland floodingVery low

Cumrumostly 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. Brecknock covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Brecknock’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Brecknock. 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 Brecknock total about $1.2M 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.