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. Flood insurance has paid 40 claims here since 1996.

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 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Hurricanes9%Everything else16%

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

75% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

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?

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

40paid claims since 1996

$1.0Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Lee: 20 claims, $808K
Tropical Storm Ivan: 5 claims, $51K
Hurricane Sandy: 1 claim, $10K

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: Schuylkill County.

Disasters that hit Eldred

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EldredDeclared for Schuylkill County only

Schuylkill County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Eldred

Eldred and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Butlermostly inland floodingHigh

Eldredmostly inland floodingModerate

Barrymostly inland floodingModerate

Upper Mahantongomostly inland floodingModerate

Heginsmostly 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 covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Eldred’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); 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.

FEMA’s expected losses across Eldred total about $1.1M 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.