Natural hazards · Glenburn

Glenburn, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glenburn comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2011.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glenburn?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glenburn to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding81%Cold waves7%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Glenburn faces

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

Inland flooding

81% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Glenburn flood?

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

2paid claims since 2011

$29Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20112026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $449

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lackawanna County.

Disasters that hit Glenburn

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlenburnDeclared for Lackawanna County only

Lackawanna County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Glenburn

Glenburn and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Glenburnmostly inland floodingModerate

Daltonmostly inland floodingModerate

West Abingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Newtonmostly inland floodingModerate

South Abingtonmostly inland floodingVery low

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