Natural hazards · Koppel

Koppel, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Koppel comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Koppel?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Koppel to be higher than in 12% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding85%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Koppel faces

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

Inland flooding

85% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Koppel flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Koppel.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Beaver County.

Disasters that hit Koppel

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KoppelDeclared for Beaver County only

Beaver County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Koppel

Koppel and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

North Sewickleymostly inland floodingModerate

Koppelmostly inland floodingVery low

Big Beavermostly 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. Koppel is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Koppel’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Koppel. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.