Natural hazards · Lowhill

Lowhill, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lowhill comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2004.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lowhill?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lowhill to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding65%Cold waves16%Hurricanes5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Lowhill faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Lowhill flood?

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

2paid claims since 2004

$17Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20042026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $2K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lehigh County.

Disasters that hit Lowhill

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LowhillDeclared for Lehigh County only

Lehigh County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Lowhill

Lowhill and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lowhillmostly inland floodingModerate

Heidelbergmostly inland floodingModerate

Upper Macungiemostly inland floodingVery low

North Whitehallmostly inland floodingVery low

Weisenbergmostly 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. Lowhill covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lowhill’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Lowhill. 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 Lowhill total about $1.1M 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.