Natural hazards · Fairview

Fairview, PA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fairview?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fairview to be higher than in 21% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding64%Cold waves14%Tornadoes6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Fairview faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Fairview flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Luzerne County.

Disasters that hit Fairview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FairviewDeclared for Luzerne County only

Luzerne County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Fairview

Fairview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ricemostly inland floodingModerate

Dennisonmostly inland floodingModerate

Hanovermostly inland floodingModerate

Fairviewmostly inland floodingLow

Bear Creekmostly inland floodingLow

Wrightmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Fairview covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fairview’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Fairview. 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 Fairview total about $935K 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.