Natural hazards · Centre

Centre, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Centre comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate 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 Centre?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Centre to be higher than in 46% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding69%Hurricanes8%Heat waves7%Strong wind7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Centre faces

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

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

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 Centre flood?

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

14paid claims since 1984

$69Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19842026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 2 claims, $26K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Perry County.

Disasters that hit Centre

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CentreDeclared for Perry County only

Perry County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Centre

Centre and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Juniatamostly inland floodingHigh

Olivermostly inland floodingHigh

Millermostly inland floodingHigh

Carrollmostly inland floodingModerate

Savillemostly inland floodingModerate

Wheatfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Centremostly inland floodingModerate

Springmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Centre covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Centre’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Centre. 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 Centre total about $2.1M 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.