Natural hazards · Ehrenfeld

Ehrenfeld, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ehrenfeld comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Ehrenfeld?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ehrenfeld to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding81%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Ehrenfeld faces

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

Inland flooding

81% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Ehrenfeld flood?

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

6paid claims since 1980

$12Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Lee: 1 claim, $1,000

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cambria County.

Disasters that hit Ehrenfeld

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EhrenfeldDeclared for Cambria County only

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

Around Ehrenfeld

Ehrenfeld and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ehrenfeldmostly inland floodingLow

Croylemostly inland floodingLow

Summerhillmostly inland floodingLow

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. Ehrenfeld covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Ehrenfeld’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Ehrenfeld. 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 Ehrenfeld total about $1.2M 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.