Natural hazards · Greene

Greene, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Greene comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 62 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Greene?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Greene to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Strong wind11%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Greene faces

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

Inland flooding

74% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

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 Greene flood?

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

62paid claims since 1979

$500Kpaid to owners

3homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 3 claims, $7K
March 2010 Nor'easter: 2 claims, $15K
Hurricane Sandy: 1 claim, $5K

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. Greene isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Clinton County.

Disasters that hit Greene

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GreeneDeclared for Clinton County only

Clinton County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Greene

Greene and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lewismostly inland floodingHigh

Lamarmostly inland floodingHigh

Greenemostly inland floodingModerate

Loganmostly inland floodingModerate

Crawfordmostly inland floodingModerate

Waynemostly inland floodingModerate

Milesmostly 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. Greene covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Greene’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Greene. 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 Greene total about $1.2M 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.