Natural hazards · Daugherty

Daugherty, PA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Daugherty?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Daugherty to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Tornadoes5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Daugherty faces

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

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Daugherty flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Beaver County.

Disasters that hit Daugherty

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DaughertyDeclared for Beaver County only

Beaver County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Daugherty

Daugherty and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

New Brightonmostly inland floodingModerate

North Sewickleymostly inland floodingModerate

Beaver Fallsmostly inland floodingLow

Daughertymostly inland floodingLow

Eastvalemostly inland floodingLow

Pulaskimostly inland floodingVery low

New Sewickleymostly inland floodingVery low

Rochestermostly 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. Daugherty covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Daugherty’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Daugherty. 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 Daugherty total about $505K 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.