Natural hazards · Hegins

Hegins, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hegins comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1979. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hegins?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hegins to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Hurricanes7%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Hegins 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

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Hegins flood?

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

1paid claims since 1979

$1Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 1 claim, $1K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Schuylkill County.

Disasters that hit Hegins

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Hegins itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Hegins.

Brought FEMA money into HeginsDeclared for Schuylkill County only

2011

Tropical Storm Lee

31 households applied for aid $60K aid approved

2006

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

3 households applied for aid $3K aid approved

2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

22 households applied for aid $66K aid approved

Schuylkill County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Hegins

Hegins and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Williamsmostly inland floodingHigh

Fraileymostly inland floodingHigh

Fostermostly inland floodingHigh

Portermostly inland floodingModerate

Eldredmostly inland floodingModerate

Upper Mahantongomostly inland floodingModerate

Barrymostly inland floodingModerate

Heginsmostly inland floodingLow

Hubleymostly inland floodingLow

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. Hegins covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Hegins’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Hegins. 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 Hegins total about $1.8M 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.