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 very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1978. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mount Pleasant?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mount Pleasant to be higher than in 8% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding80%Everything else20%

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

80% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Mount Pleasant flood?

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

1paid claims since 1978

$219paid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

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: Westmoreland County.

Disasters that hit Mount Pleasant

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Mount Pleasant itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Borough of Mount Pleasant.

Brought FEMA money into Mount PleasantDeclared for Westmoreland County only

2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

3 households applied for aid $3K aid approved

Westmoreland County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Mount Pleasantmostly inland floodingVery low

East Huntingdonmostly inland floodingVery low

Mount Pleasantmostly 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 covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

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 Borough of Mount Pleasant. 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 Mount Pleasant total about $586K 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.