Natural hazards · Butler

Butler, PA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Butler?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Butler to be higher than in 73% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Butler 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

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times 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 Butler flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Schuylkill County.

Disasters that hit Butler

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ButlerDeclared for Schuylkill County only

Schuylkill County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Butler

Butler and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ashlandmostly inland floodingVery high

Butlermostly inland floodingHigh

East Cameronmostly inland floodingHigh

Conynghammostly inland floodingModerate

Eldredmostly inland floodingModerate

Barrymostly inland floodingModerate

West Mahanoymostly inland floodingModerate

Gilbertonmostly inland floodingModerate

Frackvillemostly inland floodingVery low

Cassmostly inland floodingVery low

New Castlemostly 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. Butler covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Butler’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Butler. 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 Butler total about $3.2M 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.