Natural hazards · Chalfant

Chalfant, PA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Chalfant?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding68%Cold waves19%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Chalfant faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Cold waves

19% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Chalfant flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Allegheny County.

Disasters that hit Chalfant

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ChalfantDeclared for Allegheny County only

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

Around Chalfant

Chalfant and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Chalfantmostly inland floodingVery low

Wilkinsmostly 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. Chalfant is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Chalfant’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Chalfant. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.