Natural hazards · Kidder

Kidder, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kidder comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kidder?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kidder to be higher than in 11% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding54%Cold waves13%Heat waves7%Strong wind6%Hurricanes6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Kidder faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 9% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Kidder flood?

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

5paid claims since 1978

$30Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 2 claims, $8K
Hurricane Ida: 1 claim, $19K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carbon County.

Disasters that hit Kidder

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KidderDeclared for Carbon County only

Carbon County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Kidder

Kidder and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Dennisonmostly inland floodingModerate

White Havenmostly inland floodingModerate

Lehighmostly inland floodingLow

Bear Creekmostly inland floodingLow

Buckmostly inland floodingLow

Tobyhannamostly inland floodingVery low

Tunkhannockmostly inland floodingVery low

Kiddermostly inland floodingVery low

East Sidemostly inland floodingVery low

Fostermostly inland floodingVery low

Penn Forestmostly 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. Kidder covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kidder’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Kidder. 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 Kidder total about $761K 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.