Natural hazards · McVeytown

McVeytown, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in McVeytown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2004. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is McVeytown?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in McVeytown to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding81%Hurricanes6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What McVeytown faces

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

Inland flooding

81% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 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 McVeytown flood?

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

1paid claims since 2004

$19Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20042026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $19K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mifflin County.

Disasters that hit McVeytown

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in McVeytown itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Borough of McVeytown.

Brought FEMA money into McVeytownDeclared for Mifflin County only

2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

4 households applied for aid $28K aid approved

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

Around McVeytown

McVeytown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

McVeytownmostly inland floodingHigh

Olivermostly inland floodingHigh

Brattonmostly inland floodingHigh

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