Natural hazards · Dale

Dale, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dale comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dale?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dale to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding80%Cold waves6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Dale faces

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

Inland flooding

80% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 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 Dale flood?

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

2paid claims since 1980

$6Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cambria County.

Disasters that hit Dale

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DaleDeclared for Cambria County only

Cambria County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

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. Dale 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 Dale’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Dale. 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.