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 very low 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?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Greene to be higher than in 16% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding83%Everything else17%

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

83% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% 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 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: Beaver County.

Disasters that hit Greene

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GreeneDeclared for Beaver County only

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

Around Greene

Greene and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hanovermostly inland floodingLow

Midlandmostly inland floodingLow

Ohiovillemostly inland floodingLow

Glasgowmostly inland floodingLow

Greenemostly inland floodingVery low

Shippingportmostly inland floodingVery low

Georgetownmostly inland floodingVery low

Raccoonmostly 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 $491K 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.