Natural hazards · Elderton

Elderton, PA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Elderton?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding88%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Elderton 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

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

Recorded about 2 times 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 Elderton flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Armstrong County.

Disasters that hit Elderton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EldertonDeclared for Armstrong County only

Armstrong County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

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