Natural hazards · East Side

East Side, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in East Side comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is East Side?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in East Side to be higher than in 11% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding54%Cold waves13%Heat waves7%Strong wind6%Hurricanes6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What East Side faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 9% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 East Side flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in East Side.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carbon County.

Disasters that hit East Side

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into East SideDeclared for Carbon County only

Carbon County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around East Side

East Side and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

White Havenmostly inland floodingModerate

East Sidemostly inland floodingVery low

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