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Natural hazards · New Buffalo

New Buffalo, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in New Buffalo comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1994. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is New Buffalo?

48
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in New Buffalo to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Strong wind8%Heat waves8%Hurricanes8%Everything else9%
By hazard

What New Buffalo faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage
Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

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 New Buffalo flood?

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

1paid claims since 1994
$395paid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19942026
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. New Buffalo isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Perry County.
Disasters that hit New Buffalo

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into New BuffaloDeclared for Perry County only
2011

Tropical Storm Lee

3 households applied for aid $7K aid approved
Perry County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.
Around New Buffalo

New Buffalo and the towns around it

Watts: Moderate, mostly inland floodingHalifax: Low, mostly inland floodingBuffalo: High, mostly inland floodingReed: Low, mostly inland floodingMiller: High, mostly inland floodingWheatfield: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPenn: High, mostly inland floodingNew Buffalo: Moderate, mostly inland flooding New BuffaloWatts
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
New Buffalomostly inland floodingModerate
Wattsmostly inland floodingModerate
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. New Buffalo 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 New Buffalo’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of New Buffalo. 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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