Natural hazards · Miles

Miles, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Miles comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Miles?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Miles to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding83%Hurricanes6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Miles 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

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 Miles flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Miles.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Centre County.

Disasters that hit Miles

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MilesDeclared for Centre County only

Centre County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Miles

Miles and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hainesmostly inland floodingHigh

Pennmostly inland floodingHigh

Greggmostly inland floodingModerate

Loganmostly inland floodingModerate

Greenemostly inland floodingModerate

Milesmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Miles covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Miles’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Miles. 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 Miles total about $511K 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.