Natural hazards · Hayfield

Hayfield, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hayfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hayfield?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hayfield to be higher than in 15% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding80%Strong wind6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Hayfield faces

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

Inland flooding

80% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Hayfield flood?

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

4paid claims since 1981

$4Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Crawford County.

Disasters that hit Hayfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HayfieldDeclared for Crawford County only

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

Around Hayfield

Hayfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Woodcockmostly inland floodingModerate

Saegertownmostly inland floodingModerate

Vernonmostly inland floodingLow

Cussewagomostly inland floodingLow

Venangomostly inland floodingLow

Hayfieldmostly inland floodingVery low

West Meadmostly 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. Hayfield covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Hayfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Hayfield. 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 Hayfield total about $773K 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.