Natural hazards · Jackson

Jackson, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Jackson comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 244 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Jackson?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding89%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Jackson faces

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

Inland flooding

89% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Jackson flood?

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

244paid claims since 1978

$3.6Mpaid to owners

35homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 46 claims, $1.3M
Tropical Storm Lee: 14 claims, $485K
Not a named storm: 5 claims, $38K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (9) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Butler County.

Disasters that hit Jackson

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into JacksonDeclared for Butler County only

Butler County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Jackson

Jackson and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Zelienoplemostly inland floodingHigh

Harmonymostly inland floodingHigh

Evans Citymostly inland floodingModerate

Forwardmostly inland floodingModerate

Franklinmostly inland floodingModerate

Jacksonmostly inland floodingLow

Lancastermostly inland floodingLow

New Sewickleymostly inland floodingVery low

Cranberrymostly 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. Jackson covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Jackson’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Jackson. 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 Jackson total about $2.6M 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.