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Natural hazards · Oliver

Oliver, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Oliver comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

How exposed is Oliver?

67
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Oliver to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Heat waves6%Strong wind6%Hurricanes6%Everything else7%
By hazard

What Oliver faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage
Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Oliver flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Oliver.

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Oliver 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 Oliver

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into OliverDeclared for Perry County only
Perry County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.
Around Oliver

Oliver and the towns around it

Newport: High, mostly inland floodingMiller: High, mostly inland floodingHowe: High, mostly inland floodingGreenwood: High, mostly inland floodingTuscarora: High, mostly inland floodingCentre: Moderate, mostly inland floodingJuniata: High, mostly inland floodingWheatfield: Moderate, mostly inland floodingWatts: Moderate, mostly inland floodingBuffalo: High, mostly inland floodingGreenwood: Moderate, mostly inland floodingDelaware: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMillerstown: High, mostly inland floodingLiverpool: High, mostly inland floodingWalker: Moderate, mostly inland floodingSaville: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCarroll: Moderate, mostly inland floodingSpring: Moderate, mostly inland floodingOliver: High, mostly inland flooding OliverNewportMillerHoweGreenwoodTuscaroraCentreJuniata
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Olivermostly inland floodingHigh
Newportmostly inland floodingHigh
Juniatamostly inland floodingHigh
Greenwoodmostly inland floodingHigh
Tuscaroramostly inland floodingHigh
Millermostly inland floodingHigh
Howemostly inland floodingHigh
Centremostly 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. Oliver 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 Oliver’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Oliver. 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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