Natural hazards · Catharine

Catharine, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Catharine comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 1984.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Catharine?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Catharine to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding87%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Catharine faces

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

Inland flooding

87% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% 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 Catharine flood?

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

14paid claims since 1984

$181Kpaid to owners

3homes flooded more than once

19842026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 4 claims, $32K
Hurricane Ida: 2 claims, $70K

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

Insurance rates: Blair County.

Disasters that hit Catharine

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CatharineDeclared for Blair County only

Blair County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Catharine

Catharine and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Catharinemostly inland floodingHigh

Woodburymostly inland floodingHigh

Williamsburgmostly inland floodingHigh

Portermostly inland floodingHigh

Morrismostly inland floodingModerate

Frankstownmostly inland floodingLow

Tyronemostly inland floodingLow

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. Catharine covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Catharine’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Catharine. 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 Catharine total about $1.7M 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.