Natural hazards · Lenox

Lenox, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lenox comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2018.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lenox?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lenox to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding80%Tornadoes6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Lenox faces

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

Inland flooding

80% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 40 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Lenox flood?

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

3paid claims since 2018

$86Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20182026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Debby: 1 claim, $20K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Susquehanna County.

Disasters that hit Lenox

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LenoxDeclared for Susquehanna County only

Susquehanna County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

Around Lenox

Lenox and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Nicholsonmostly inland floodingHigh

Lenoxmostly inland floodingModerate

Cliffordmostly inland floodingModerate

Harfordmostly inland floodingLow

Bentonmostly inland floodingLow

Brooklynmostly inland floodingLow

Lathropmostly inland floodingLow

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