Natural hazards · Newberry

Newberry, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Newberry comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 88 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Newberry?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Newberry to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding77%Hurricanes8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Newberry faces

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

Inland flooding

77% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Newberry flood?

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

88paid claims since 1978

$1.1Mpaid to owners

11homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Lee: 14 claims, $341K
Hurricane Ida: 6 claims, $93K
Hurricane Sandy: 4 claims, $58K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (5) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: York County.

Disasters that hit Newberry

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NewberryDeclared for York County only

York County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Newberry

Newberry and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Goldsboromostly inland floodingHigh

York Havenmostly inland floodingHigh

Newberrymostly inland floodingModerate

Londonderrymostly inland floodingModerate

Lewisberrymostly inland floodingModerate

Conewagomostly inland floodingLow

Fairviewmostly inland floodingLow

Warringtonmostly inland floodingLow

Lower Swataramostly inland floodingLow

East Manchestermostly 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. Newberry covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Newberry’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Newberry. 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 Newberry total about $4.4M 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.