Natural hazards · Kennett

Kennett, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kennett comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 21 claims here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kennett?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kennett to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Tornadoes5%Everything else21%

By hazard

What Kennett faces

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

Inland flooding

74% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Kennett flood?

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

21paid claims since 1983

$345Kpaid to owners

4homes flooded more than once

19832026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Floyd: 3 claims, $48K
Hurricane Irene: 2 claims, $30K
Hurricane Isaias: 2 claims, $21K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chester County.

Disasters that hit Kennett

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KennettDeclared for Chester County only

Chester County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Kennett

Kennett and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kennettmostly inland floodingLow

East Marlboroughmostly inland floodingLow

Pennsburymostly inland floodingVery low

New Gardenmostly 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. Kennett covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kennett’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Kennett. 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 Kennett total about $3.9M 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.