Natural hazards · Knox

Knox, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Knox comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Knox?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Knox to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Strong wind6%Cold waves5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Knox faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Knox flood?

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

7paid claims since 1996

$47Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 4 claims, $39K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clearfield County.

Disasters that hit Knox

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KnoxDeclared for Clearfield County only

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

Around Knox

Knox and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fergusonmostly inland floodingHigh

Lawrencemostly inland floodingModerate

Pikemostly inland floodingLow

Knoxmostly inland floodingLow

Biglermostly inland floodingLow

Jordanmostly inland floodingLow

Boggsmostly inland floodingVery low

Woodwardmostly 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. Knox covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Knox’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Knox. 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 Knox total about $632K 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.