Natural hazards · Meadowood

Meadowood, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Meadowood comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2004.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Meadowood?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Meadowood to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding83%Tornadoes5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Meadowood faces

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

Inland flooding

83% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Meadowood flood?

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

1paid claims since 2004

$33Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20042026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $33K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Butler County.

Disasters that hit Meadowood

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MeadowoodDeclared for Butler County only

Butler County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Meadowood

Meadowood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Butlermostly inland floodingModerate

Oak Hillsmostly inland floodingLow

Meadowoodmostly 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. Meadowood covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Meadowood’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Meadowood. 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 Meadowood total about $528K 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.