Natural hazards · Lyons

Lyons, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lyons comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lyons?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lyons to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding57%Drought11%Hurricanes9%Cold waves5%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Lyons faces

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

Inland flooding

57% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Drought

11% of expected damage

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Lyons flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Lyons.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Berks County.

Disasters that hit Lyons

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LyonsDeclared for Berks County only

Berks County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Lyons

Lyons and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lyonsmostly inland floodingLow

Maxatawnymostly 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. Lyons 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 Lyons’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Lyons. 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.