Natural hazards · Dreher

Dreher, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dreher comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1984.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dreher?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dreher to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding70%Cold waves10%Hurricanes7%Strong wind6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Dreher faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 25 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Dreher flood?

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

5paid claims since 1984

$16Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19842026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Gloria: 1 claim, $4K

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

Insurance rates: Wayne County.

Disasters that hit Dreher

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DreherDeclared for Wayne County only

Wayne County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Dreher

Dreher and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Greenemostly inland floodingLow

Drehermostly inland floodingLow

Sterlingmostly inland floodingLow

Lehighmostly inland floodingLow

Coolbaughmostly 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. Dreher 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 Dreher’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Dreher. 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.