Natural hazards · Glasgow

Glasgow, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glasgow comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glasgow?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glasgow to be higher than in 21% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding83%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Glasgow 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

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 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 Glasgow flood?

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

2paid claims since 1996

$32Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $11K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Beaver County.

Disasters that hit Glasgow

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlasgowDeclared for Beaver County only

Beaver County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Glasgow

Glasgow and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Glasgowmostly inland floodingLow

Ohiovillemostly inland floodingLow

Greenemostly inland floodingVery low

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