Natural hazards · Little Beaver

Little Beaver, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Little Beaver comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2022.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Little Beaver?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding86%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Little Beaver faces

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

Inland flooding

86% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 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 Little Beaver flood?

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

1paid claims since 2022

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20222026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lawrence County.

Disasters that hit Little Beaver

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Little BeaverDeclared for Lawrence County only

Lawrence County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

Around Little Beaver

Little Beaver and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

New Beavermostly inland floodingHigh

Darlingtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Little Beavermostly inland floodingModerate

Enon Valleymostly inland floodingModerate

Unitymostly inland floodingLow

North Beavermostly 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. Little Beaver 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 Little Beaver’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Little Beaver. 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.