Natural hazards · McClure

McClure, PA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is McClure?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in McClure to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding77%Hurricanes9%Everything else14%

By hazard

What McClure faces

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

Inland flooding

77% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 McClure flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Snyder County.

Disasters that hit McClure

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into McClureDeclared for Snyder County only

Snyder County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around McClure

McClure and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

McCluremostly inland floodingModerate

West Beavermostly inland floodingModerate

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