Natural hazards · Fredonia

Fredonia, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fredonia comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fredonia?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fredonia to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding85%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Fredonia 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 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Fredonia flood?

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

2paid claims since 1980

$9Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mercer County.

Disasters that hit Fredonia

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FredoniaDeclared for Mercer County only

Mercer County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Fredonia

Fredonia and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fredoniamostly inland floodingLow

Delawaremostly inland floodingLow

Fairviewmostly 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. Fredonia 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 Fredonia’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Fredonia. 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.