Natural hazards · Menallen

Menallen, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Menallen comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1985.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Menallen?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Menallen to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding70%Hurricanes12%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Menallen faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Menallen flood?

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

8paid claims since 1985

$195Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19852026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Bill: 1 claim, $61K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Adams County.

Disasters that hit Menallen

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MenallenDeclared for Adams County only

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

Around Menallen

Menallen and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Franklinmostly inland floodingLow

Menallenmostly inland floodingLow

Tyronemostly inland floodingVery low

Butlermostly 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. Menallen covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Menallen’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Menallen. 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 Menallen total about $1.2M 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.