Natural hazards · McKees Rocks

McKees Rocks, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in McKees Rocks comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 55 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is McKees Rocks?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in McKees Rocks to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding93%Everything else7%

By hazard

What McKees Rocks faces

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

Inland flooding

93% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 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 McKees Rocks flood?

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

55paid claims since 1980

$1.9Mpaid to owners

9homes flooded more than once

19802026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 13 claims, $280K

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. McKees Rocks isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Allegheny County.

Disasters that hit McKees Rocks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into McKees RocksDeclared for Allegheny County only

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

Around McKees Rocks

McKees Rocks and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

McKees Rocksmostly inland floodingVery high

Stowemostly inland floodingHigh

Pittsburghmostly inland floodingHigh

Kennedymostly 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. McKees Rocks covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to McKees Rocks’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of McKees Rocks. 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 McKees Rocks total about $3.9M 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.