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Kenhorst, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kenhorst comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1982.

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

How exposed is Kenhorst?

37
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kenhorst to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding55%Cold waves10%Hurricanes8%Tornadoes6%Heat waves6%Earthquakes6%Everything else10%
By hazard

What Kenhorst faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Heat waves

6% of expected damage
Well below average · higher than 15% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesLightning

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 Kenhorst flood?

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

3paid claims since 1982
$2Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19822026
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Kenhorst isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Berks County.
Disasters that hit Kenhorst

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KenhorstDeclared for Berks County only
Berks County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Kenhorst

Kenhorst and the towns around it

Cumru: Very low, mostly inland floodingReading: Low, mostly inland floodingShillington: Low, mostly inland floodingSpring: Very low, mostly inland floodingWyomissing: Low, mostly inland floodingBrecknock: Low, mostly inland floodingWest Reading: Low, mostly inland floodingRobeson: Low, mostly inland floodingExeter: Low, mostly inland floodingLower Alsace: Low, mostly inland floodingMuhlenberg: Low, mostly inland floodingBern: Very low, mostly inland floodingMount Penn: Very low, mostly inland floodingKenhorst: Low, mostly inland flooding KenhorstCumruReading
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Readingmostly inland floodingLow
Kenhorstmostly inland floodingLow
Cumrumostly 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. Kenhorst covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kenhorst’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Kenhorst. 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 Kenhorst total about $625K 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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