Natural hazards · Mahoning

Mahoning, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mahoning comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mahoning?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding87%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Mahoning faces

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

Inland flooding

87% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% 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 Mahoning flood?

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

9paid claims since 2003

$208Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Bill: 1 claim, $3K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Mahoning 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 Mahoning

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MahoningDeclared for Lawrence County only

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

Around Mahoning

Mahoning and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Mahoningmostly inland floodingModerate

Pulaskimostly inland floodingModerate

North Beavermostly inland floodingLow

Neshannockmostly inland floodingLow

Unionmostly inland floodingLow

Polandmostly 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. Mahoning covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Mahoning’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Mahoning. 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 Mahoning total about $660K 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.