Natural hazards · Mineral

Mineral, PA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mineral?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mineral to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Strong wind10%Lightning7%Tornadoes6%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Mineral faces

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

Inland flooding

74% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lightning

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 22 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesAvalanches

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 Mineral flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Venango County.

Disasters that hit Mineral

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MineralDeclared for Venango County only

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

Around Mineral

Mineral and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Frenchcreekmostly inland floodingHigh

Mineralmostly inland floodingLow

Victorymostly inland floodingLow

Irwinmostly inland floodingLow

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