Natural hazards · Fayette

Fayette, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fayette comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fayette?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fayette to be higher than in 46% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Hurricanes11%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Fayette faces

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

Inland flooding

74% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 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 Fayette flood?

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

6paid claims since 1996

$71Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19962026

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. Fayette isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Juniata County.

Disasters that hit Fayette

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FayetteDeclared for Juniata County only

Juniata County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Fayette

Fayette and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fermanaghmostly inland floodingHigh

Walkermostly inland floodingModerate

Delawaremostly inland floodingModerate

West Beavermostly inland floodingModerate

Decaturmostly inland floodingModerate

Monroemostly inland floodingModerate

Fayettemostly inland floodingModerate

West Perrymostly inland floodingModerate

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. Fayette covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fayette’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Fayette. 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 Fayette total about $1.0M 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.