Natural hazards · Leith-Hatfield

Leith-Hatfield, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Leith-Hatfield 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 Leith-Hatfield?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Leith-Hatfield to be higher than in 2% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding73%Tornadoes11%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Leith-Hatfield faces

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

Inland flooding

73% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 10% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Leith-Hatfield flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Leith-Hatfield.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fayette County.

Disasters that hit Leith-Hatfield

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Fayette County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Leith-Hatfield itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Leith-HatfieldDeclared for Fayette County only

Fayette County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and severe storms.

Around Leith-Hatfield

Leith-Hatfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Uniontownmostly inland floodingModerate

Georgesmostly inland floodingLow

East Uniontownmostly inland floodingVery low

South Unionmostly inland floodingVery low

Leith-Hatfieldmostly 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. Leith-Hatfield 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 Leith-Hatfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Leith-Hatfield. 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.