Natural hazards · Dingman

Dingman, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dingman comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 2005.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dingman?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dingman to be higher than in 26% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding64%Cold waves17%Hurricanes6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Dingman faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Dingman flood?

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

7paid claims since 2005

$73Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

20052026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 2 claims, $14K
Hurricane Ida: 1 claim, $2K
Hurricane Isaias: 1 claim, $5K

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

Insurance rates: Pike County.

Disasters that hit Dingman

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DingmanDeclared for Pike County only

Pike County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Dingman

Dingman and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Milfordmostly inland floodingVery high

Montaguemostly inland floodingHigh

Sandystonmostly inland floodingHigh

Shoholamostly inland floodingLow

Delawaremostly inland floodingLow

Dingmanmostly inland floodingLow

Blooming Grovemostly 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. Dingman covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dingman’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Dingman. 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 Dingman total about $3.6M 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.