Natural hazards · Frankstown

Frankstown, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Frankstown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 170 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Frankstown?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Frankstown to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding83%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Frankstown faces

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

Inland flooding

83% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times 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 Frankstown flood?

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

170paid claims since 1979

$2.3Mpaid to owners

25homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 12 claims, $107K
Hurricane Ida: 3 claims, $369K
Tropical Storm Lee: 1 claim, $146K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (7) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Blair County.

Disasters that hit Frankstown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FrankstownDeclared for Blair County only

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

Around Frankstown

Frankstown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Woodburymostly inland floodingHigh

Catharinemostly inland floodingHigh

Hollidaysburgmostly inland floodingLow

Frankstownmostly inland floodingLow

Taylormostly inland floodingLow

Blairmostly inland floodingLow

Tyronemostly inland floodingLow

Loganmostly inland floodingVery low

Alleghenymostly inland floodingVery low

Hustonmostly 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. Frankstown covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Frankstown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Frankstown. 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 Frankstown total about $2.5M 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.