Natural hazards · DuBois

DuBois, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in DuBois comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 172 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is DuBois?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in DuBois to be higher than in 16% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding73%Strong wind7%Cold waves5%Everything else15%

By hazard

What DuBois faces

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

Inland flooding

73% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 DuBois flood?

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

172paid claims since 1979

$3.1Mpaid to owners

28homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 33 claims, $256K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clearfield County.

Disasters that hit DuBois

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DuBoisDeclared for Clearfield County only

Clearfield County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

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. DuBois covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to DuBois’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of DuBois. 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 DuBois total about $1.9M 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.