Natural hazards · Forks

Forks, PA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Forks?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Forks to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding91%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Forks faces

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

Inland flooding

91% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Forks flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sullivan County.

Disasters that hit Forks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ForksDeclared for Sullivan County only

Sullivan County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Forks

Forks and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Forksmostly inland floodingVery high

Elklandmostly inland floodingVery high

Forksvillemostly inland floodingVery high

Shrewsburymostly inland floodingHigh

Cherrymostly inland floodingHigh

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