Natural hazards · Cass

Cass, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cass comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 2006.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cass?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cass to be higher than in 8% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding65%Hurricanes9%Cold waves6%Tornadoes6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Cass faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 74 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Cass flood?

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

6paid claims since 2006

$144Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20062026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Lee: 1 claim, $21K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Cass 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 Cass

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CassDeclared for Schuylkill County only

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

Around Cass

Cass and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Minersvillemostly inland floodingHigh

Butlermostly inland floodingHigh

Fostermostly inland floodingHigh

Reillymostly inland floodingHigh

Norwegianmostly inland floodingLow

Branchmostly inland floodingLow

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. Cass covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Cass’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Cass. 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 Cass total about $695K 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.