Natural hazards · Doylestown

Doylestown, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Doylestown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 25 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Doylestown?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Doylestown to be higher than in 29% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Tornadoes5%Earthquakes5%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Doylestown faces

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

Inland flooding

74% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Doylestown flood?

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

25paid claims since 1996

$378Kpaid to owners

3homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 6 claims, $94K
Hurricane Floyd: 4 claims, $36K
Tropical Storm Allison: 4 claims, $28K

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

Insurance rates: Bucks County.

Disasters that hit Doylestown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DoylestownDeclared for Bucks County only

Bucks County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Doylestown

Doylestown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Doylestownmostly inland floodingLow

Plumsteadmostly inland floodingLow

Buckinghammostly inland floodingLow

Warwickmostly inland floodingVery low

New Britainmostly inland floodingVery low

Warringtonmostly inland floodingVery low

New Britainmostly inland floodingVery low

Doylestownmostly 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. Doylestown covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Doylestown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Doylestown. 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 Doylestown total about $6.5M 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.