Natural hazards · Dunkard

Dunkard, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dunkard comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1982.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dunkard?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dunkard to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding88%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Dunkard faces

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

Inland flooding

88% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Dunkard flood?

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

3paid claims since 1982

$8Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19822026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Greene County.

Disasters that hit Dunkard

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DunkardDeclared for Greene County only

Greene County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Dunkard

Dunkard and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Dunkardmostly inland floodingHigh

Perrymostly inland floodingHigh

Monongahelamostly inland floodingHigh

Greenemostly inland floodingHigh

Whiteleymostly inland floodingHigh

Springhillmostly inland floodingModerate

Point Marionmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Dunkard covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dunkard’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Dunkard. 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 Dunkard total about $2.0M 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.