Natural hazards · Dunbar

Dunbar, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dunbar comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2014.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dunbar?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dunbar to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding87%Tornadoes5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Dunbar faces

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

Inland flooding

87% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Dunbar flood?

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

4paid claims since 2014

$140Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20142026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fayette County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Dunbar

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DunbarDeclared for Fayette County only

Fayette County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and severe storms.

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. Dunbar 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 Dunbar’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Dunbar. 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.