Natural hazards · Howe

Howe, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Howe comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Howe?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Howe to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Hurricanes8%Strong wind7%Heat waves6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Howe faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Howe flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Perry County.

Disasters that hit Howe

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HoweDeclared for Perry County only

Perry County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Howe

Howe and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Olivermostly inland floodingHigh

Newportmostly inland floodingHigh

Greenwoodmostly inland floodingHigh

Howemostly inland floodingHigh

Millermostly inland floodingHigh

Buffalomostly inland floodingHigh

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. Howe is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Howe’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Howe. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.