Natural hazards · Eldred

Eldred, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Eldred 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 Eldred?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Eldred to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Strong wind5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Eldred faces

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

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Eldred flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lycoming County.

Disasters that hit Eldred

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EldredDeclared for Lycoming County only

Lycoming County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Eldred

Eldred and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hepburnmostly inland floodingVery high

Plunketts Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

Gamblemostly inland floodingHigh

Eldredmostly inland floodingModerate

Upper Fairfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Loyalsockmostly 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. Eldred 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 Eldred’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Eldred. 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.