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Natural hazards · Jenkins

Jenkins, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Jenkins comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 170 claims here since 1979.

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

How exposed is Jenkins?

44
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Jenkins to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding81%Cold waves6%Everything else13%
By hazard

What Jenkins faces

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

Inland flooding

81% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Jenkins flood?

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

170paid claims since 1979
$8.0Mpaid to owners
22homes flooded more than once
19792026

Biggest named events

  • Tropical Storm Lee: 51 claims, $5.5M
  • Tropical Storm Ivan: 34 claims, $1.2M
  • Hurricane Floyd: 2 claims, $16K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (11) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Jenkins isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Luzerne County.
Disasters that hit Jenkins

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into JenkinsDeclared for Luzerne County only
Luzerne County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.
Around Jenkins

Jenkins and the towns around it

Laflin: Very low, mostly inland floodingPlains: Moderate, mostly inland floodingYatesville: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPittston: Low, mostly inland floodingSpring Brook: Low, mostly inland floodingBear Creek: Low, mostly inland floodingThornhurst: Low, mostly inland floodingPittston: High, mostly inland floodingWyoming: Moderate, mostly inland floodingExeter: High, mostly inland floodingWilkes-Barre: High, mostly inland floodingForty Fort: Moderate, mostly inland floodingKingston: Moderate, mostly inland floodingDupont: Moderate, mostly inland floodingHughestown: High, mostly inland floodingAvoca: High, mostly inland floodingCovington: Very low, mostly inland floodingMoscow: Very low, mostly inland floodingClifton: Low, mostly inland floodingScranton: Moderate, mostly inland floodingKidder: Very low, mostly inland floodingPenn Lake Park: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBuck: Low, mostly inland floodingDennison: Moderate, mostly inland floodingFairview: Low, mostly inland floodingLaurel Run: Low, mostly inland floodingHanover: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCoolbaugh: Very low, mostly inland floodingTobyhanna: Very low, mostly inland floodingWest Pittston: High, mostly inland floodingDuryea: Very high, mostly inland floodingWest Wyoming: Low, mostly inland floodingExeter: High, mostly inland floodingJenkins: Moderate, mostly inland flooding JenkinsLaflinPlainsYatesvillePittstonSpring BrookBear CreekThornhurstPittstonWyomingExeter
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Pittstonmostly inland floodingHigh
Exetermostly inland floodingHigh
Plainsmostly inland floodingModerate
Jenkinsmostly inland floodingModerate
Yatesvillemostly inland floodingModerate
Wyomingmostly inland floodingModerate
Pittstonmostly inland floodingLow
Spring Brookmostly inland floodingLow
Thornhurstmostly inland floodingLow
Bear Creekmostly inland floodingLow
Laflinmostly 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. Jenkins covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Jenkins’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Jenkins. 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 Jenkins total about $2.1M 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.

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