Natural hazards · Nottingham

Nottingham, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Nottingham comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 2004.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Nottingham?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Nottingham to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding88%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Nottingham faces

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

Inland flooding

88% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Nottingham flood?

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

4paid claims since 2004

$75Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20042026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 2 claims, $14K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Washington County.

Disasters that hit Nottingham

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NottinghamDeclared for Washington County only

Washington County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Nottingham

Nottingham and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Unionmostly inland floodingLow

Carrollmostly inland floodingLow

Nottinghammostly inland floodingLow

Somersetmostly inland floodingLow

Fallowfieldmostly inland floodingLow

North Strabanemostly inland floodingVery low

Petersmostly 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. Nottingham covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Nottingham’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Nottingham. 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 Nottingham total about $1.4M 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.