Natural hazards · Mead

Mead, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mead comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mead?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mead to be higher than in 75% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding86%Strong wind6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Mead faces

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

Inland flooding

86% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

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 Mead flood?

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

4paid claims since 1996

$24Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19962026

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

Insurance rates: Warren County.

Disasters that hit Mead

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MeadDeclared for Warren County only

Warren County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Mead

Mead and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sheffieldmostly inland floodingVery high

Pleasantmostly inland floodingVery high

Warrenmostly inland floodingVery high

Glademostly inland floodingVery high

Meadmostly inland floodingHigh

Elkmostly inland floodingHigh

Corydonmostly inland floodingHigh

Hamiltonmostly 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. Mead 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 Mead’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Mead. 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.