Natural hazards · Jenks

Jenks, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Jenks comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Jenks?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Jenks to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and lightning.

Inland flooding66%Lightning24%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Jenks faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lightning

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windAvalanches

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 Jenks flood?

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

4paid claims since 1996

$155Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Forest County.

Disasters that hit Jenks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into JenksDeclared for Forest County only

Forest County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Jenks

Jenks and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kingsleymostly inland floodingHigh

Greenmostly inland floodingHigh

Jenksmostly inland floodingHigh

Millstonemostly inland floodingHigh

Howemostly inland floodingHigh

Highlandmostly inland floodingHigh

Barnettmostly 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. Jenks covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Jenks’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Jenks. 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 Jenks total about $2.2M 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.