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 low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Greene?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Greene to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Cold waves12%Everything else13%

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

75% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% 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 Greene flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Greene.

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: Pike County.

Disasters that hit Greene

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GreeneDeclared for Pike County only

Pike County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Greene

Greene and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Barrettmostly inland floodingModerate

Greenemostly inland floodingLow

Drehermostly inland floodingLow

Sterlingmostly inland floodingLow

Portermostly inland floodingVery low

Palmyramostly inland floodingVery low

Salemmostly inland floodingVery low

Blooming Grovemostly inland floodingVery low

Coolbaughmostly 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. 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 $1.0M 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.