Natural hazards · Logan

Logan, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Logan comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 33 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Logan?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Logan to be higher than in 14% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Tornadoes6%Hurricanes5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Logan faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 22 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce 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 Logan flood?

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

33paid claims since 1978

$131Kpaid to owners

4homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 4 claims, $44K
Tropical Storm Lee: 1 claim, $681

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Blair County.

Disasters that hit Logan

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LoganDeclared for Blair County only

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

Around Logan

Logan and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Antismostly inland floodingModerate

Frankstownmostly inland floodingLow

Tyronemostly inland floodingLow

Loganmostly inland floodingVery low

Altoonamostly inland floodingVery low

Gallitzinmostly inland floodingVery low

Deanmostly inland floodingVery low

Alleghenymostly 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. Logan covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

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

FEMA’s expected losses across Logan total about $2.1M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.