Natural hazards · Bushkill

Bushkill, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bushkill comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 12 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bushkill?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bushkill to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding66%Heat waves7%Cold waves7%Hurricanes7%Tornadoes5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Bushkill faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 14% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Bushkill flood?

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

12paid claims since 1996

$272Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 5 claims, $156K
Hurricane Isaias: 3 claims, $102K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Northampton County.

Disasters that hit Bushkill

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BushkillDeclared for Northampton County only

Northampton County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

Around Bushkill

Bushkill and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Upper Nazarethmostly inland floodingModerate

Bushkillmostly inland floodingLow

Rossmostly inland floodingLow

Mooremostly inland floodingLow

Plainfieldmostly 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. Bushkill covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Bushkill’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Bushkill. 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 Bushkill total about $2.0M 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.