Natural hazards · Connellsville

Connellsville, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Connellsville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 45 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Connellsville?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Connellsville to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding93%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Connellsville faces

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

Inland flooding

93% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Connellsville flood?

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

45paid claims since 1978

$511Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19782026

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

Insurance rates: Fayette County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

50flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Connellsville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ConnellsvilleDeclared for Fayette County only

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

Around Connellsville

Connellsville and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Connellsvillemostly inland floodingHigh

Dunbarmostly inland floodingModerate

Connellsvillemostly inland floodingModerate

South Connellsvillemostly 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. Connellsville covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Connellsville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Connellsville. 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 Connellsville 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.