Natural hazards · Nether Providence

Nether Providence, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Nether Providence comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 17 claims here since 1989.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Nether Providence?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Nether Providence to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding60%Heat waves9%Tornadoes7%Earthquakes7%Cold waves6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Nether Providence faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 16% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Nether Providence flood?

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

17paid claims since 1989

$289Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19892026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 5 claims, $97K
Hurricane Floyd: 2 claims, $52K
Mid-spring storms: 1 claim, $33K

Homes that flooded again and again

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Delaware County.

Disasters that hit Nether Providence

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Nether ProvidenceDeclared for Delaware County only

Delaware County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Nether Providence

Nether Providence and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brookhavenmostly inland floodingModerate

Chestermostly inland floodingLow

Ridleymostly inland floodingLow

Rose Valleymostly inland floodingLow

Nether Providencemostly inland floodingVery low

Swarthmoremostly inland floodingVery low

Upper Providencemostly inland floodingVery low

Springfieldmostly inland floodingVery low

Marplemostly inland floodingVery low

Mediamostly 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. Nether Providence covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Nether Providence’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Nether Providence. 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 Nether Providence total about $3.9M 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.