Natural hazards · Edgewood

Edgewood, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Edgewood comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Edgewood?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Edgewood to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Hurricanes5%Strong wind5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Edgewood faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Edgewood flood?

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

2paid claims since 1978

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Northumberland County.

Disasters that hit Edgewood

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EdgewoodDeclared for Northumberland County only

Northumberland County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods 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. Edgewood covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Edgewood’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Edgewood. 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 Edgewood total about $660K 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.