Natural hazards · Newlin

Newlin, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Newlin comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 12 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Newlin?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Newlin to be higher than in 21% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding54%Drought19%Hurricanes10%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Newlin faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Drought

19% of expected damage

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Newlin flood?

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

12paid claims since 1996

$584Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ida: 6 claims, $547K
Hurricane Floyd: 2 claims, $13K

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. Newlin isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Chester County.

Disasters that hit Newlin

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NewlinDeclared for Chester County only

Chester County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Newlin

Newlin and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pocopsonmostly inland floodingModerate

Newlinmostly inland floodingLow

West Marlboroughmostly inland floodingLow

East Marlboroughmostly inland floodingLow

West Bradfordmostly inland floodingVery low

East Fallowfieldmostly 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. Newlin 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 Newlin’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Newlin. 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.