Natural hazards · Kiskiminetas

Kiskiminetas, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kiskiminetas comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kiskiminetas?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kiskiminetas to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding84%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Kiskiminetas faces

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

Inland flooding

84% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

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 Kiskiminetas flood?

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

2paid claims since 1996

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $1K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Armstrong County.

Disasters that hit Kiskiminetas

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KiskiminetasDeclared for Armstrong County only

Armstrong County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Kiskiminetas

Kiskiminetas and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Apollomostly inland floodingVery high

North Apollomostly inland floodingVery high

Parksmostly inland floodingHigh

Vandergriftmostly inland floodingHigh

Burrellmostly inland floodingModerate

South Bendmostly inland floodingModerate

Bellmostly inland floodingLow

Avonmoremostly inland floodingLow

Oklahomamostly inland floodingLow

Kiskiminetasmostly inland floodingLow

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. Kiskiminetas covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kiskiminetas’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Kiskiminetas. 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 Kiskiminetas total about $865K 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.