Natural hazards · Brokenstraw

Brokenstraw, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brokenstraw comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brokenstraw?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brokenstraw to be higher than in 93% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding92%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Brokenstraw faces

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

Inland flooding

92% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% 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 Brokenstraw flood?

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

10paid claims since 1978

$83Kpaid 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. Brokenstraw isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Warren County.

Disasters that hit Brokenstraw

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrokenstrawDeclared for Warren County only

Warren County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Brokenstraw

Brokenstraw and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brokenstrawmostly inland floodingVery high

Conewangomostly inland floodingVery high

Deerfieldmostly inland floodingVery high

Pleasantmostly inland floodingVery high

Pittsfieldmostly inland floodingVery high

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