Natural hazards · Leidy

Leidy, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Leidy comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Leidy?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Leidy to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding93%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Leidy faces

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

Inland flooding

93% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once 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 Leidy flood?

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

6paid claims since 1996

$65Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $12K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clinton County.

Disasters that hit Leidy

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LeidyDeclared for Clinton County only

Clinton County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Leidy

Leidy and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Leidymostly inland floodingVery high

Chapmanmostly inland floodingVery high

Noyesmostly inland floodingVery high

East Keatingmostly inland floodingVery high

Whartonmostly inland floodingVery high

Stewardsonmostly inland floodingVery high

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. Leidy 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 Leidy’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Leidy. 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.