Natural hazards · Burnside

Burnside, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Burnside comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Burnside?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Burnside to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Burnside faces

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

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% 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 Burnside flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Burnside.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Centre County.

Disasters that hit Burnside

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BurnsideDeclared for Centre County only

Centre County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Burnside

Burnside and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

West Keatingmostly inland floodingVery high

East Keatingmostly inland floodingVery high

Noyesmostly inland floodingVery high

Beech Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

Curtinmostly inland floodingHigh

Karthausmostly inland floodingModerate

Burnsidemostly inland floodingLow

Snow Shoemostly inland floodingLow

Coopermostly 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. Burnside covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Burnside’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Burnside. 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 Burnside total about $521K 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.