Natural hazards · Georges

Georges, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Georges comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Georges?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Georges to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Tornadoes7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Georges faces

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

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Georges flood?

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

5paid claims since 1980

$30Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fayette County.

Disasters that hit Georges

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GeorgesDeclared for Fayette County only

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

Around Georges

Georges and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Germanmostly inland floodingModerate

Springhillmostly inland floodingModerate

Nicholsonmostly inland floodingModerate

Georgesmostly inland floodingLow

Whartonmostly inland floodingVery low

South Unionmostly 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. Georges covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Georges’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Georges. 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 Georges total about $394K 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.