Natural hazards · Fallowfield

Fallowfield, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fallowfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fallowfield?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fallowfield to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding85%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Fallowfield faces

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

Inland flooding

85% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Fallowfield flood?

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

5paid claims since 1979

$17Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19792026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Washington County.

Disasters that hit Fallowfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FallowfieldDeclared for Washington County only

Washington County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Fallowfield

Fallowfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Twilightmostly inland floodingVery high

Californiamostly inland floodingVery high

Charleroimostly inland floodingHigh

West Pike Runmostly inland floodingHigh

North Charleroimostly inland floodingHigh

Bentleyvillemostly inland floodingModerate

Monessenmostly inland floodingModerate

Carrollmostly inland floodingLow

Nottinghammostly inland floodingLow

Somersetmostly inland floodingLow

Fallowfieldmostly 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. Fallowfield covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fallowfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Fallowfield. 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 Fallowfield total about $803K 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.