Natural hazards · Myerstown

Myerstown, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Myerstown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 31 claims here since 1979. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Myerstown?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Myerstown to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Hurricanes7%Earthquakes6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Myerstown faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Myerstown flood?

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

31paid claims since 1979

$646Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Lee: 13 claims, $191K
Not a named storm: 10 claims, $27K
Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $6K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lebanon County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Myerstown

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MyerstownDeclared for Lebanon County only

2011

Tropical Storm Lee

345 households applied for aid $773K aid approved

2006

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

39 households applied for aid $84K aid approved

2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

11 households applied for aid $28K aid approved

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

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. Myerstown covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Myerstown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Myerstown. 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 Myerstown 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.