Natural hazards · Glenfield

Glenfield, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glenfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 34 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glenfield?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glenfield to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding88%Cold waves6%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Glenfield faces

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

Inland flooding

88% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% 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 Glenfield flood?

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

34paid claims since 1996

$284Kpaid to owners

5homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 13 claims, $95K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Allegheny County.

Disasters that hit Glenfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GlenfieldDeclared for Allegheny County only

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

Around Glenfield

Glenfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Nevillemostly inland floodingModerate

Glenfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Haysvillemostly inland floodingModerate

Aleppomostly inland floodingModerate

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. Glenfield covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Glenfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Glenfield. 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 Glenfield total about $1.6M 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.