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Natural hazards · Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant?

39
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mount Pleasant to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding79%Cold waves8%Everything else13%
By hazard

What Mount Pleasant faces

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

Inland flooding

79% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

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 Mount Pleasant flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Mount Pleasant isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Wayne County.
Disasters that hit Mount Pleasant

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mount PleasantDeclared for Wayne County only
Wayne County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.
Around Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant and the towns around it

Clinton: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLebanon: Very low, mostly inland floodingPreston: Low, mostly inland floodingBuckingham: High, mostly inland floodingHerrick: Very low, mostly inland floodingDyberry: Very low, mostly inland floodingForest City: High, mostly inland floodingVandling: Very high, mostly inland floodingWaymart: Very low, mostly inland floodingCanaan: Very low, mostly inland floodingFell: Very high, mostly inland floodingClifford: Moderate, mostly inland floodingDamascus: Moderate, mostly inland floodingOregon: Very low, mostly inland floodingManchester: High, mostly inland floodingScott: Low, mostly inland floodingStarrucca: Low, mostly inland floodingThompson: Very low, mostly inland floodingHancock: Very high, mostly inland floodingHancock: Very high, mostly inland floodingUnion Dale: Very low, mostly inland floodingGibson: Very low, mostly inland floodingArarat: Very low, mostly inland floodingHonesdale: High, mostly inland floodingPrompton: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMount Pleasant: Low, mostly inland flooding Mount PleasantClintonLebanonPrestonBuckinghamHerrickDyberry
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Buckinghammostly inland floodingHigh
Clintonmostly inland floodingModerate
Mount Pleasantmostly inland floodingLow
Prestonmostly inland floodingLow
Lebanonmostly inland floodingVery low
Dyberrymostly inland floodingVery low
Herrickmostly 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. Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Mount Pleasant. 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.

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