Natural hazards · Overfield

Overfield, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Overfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1996.

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

How exposed is Overfield?

76
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Overfield to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding89%Everything else11%
By hazard

What Overfield faces

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

Inland flooding

89% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

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 Overfield flood?

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

2paid claims since 1996
$5Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19962026
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Overfield isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Wyoming County.
Disasters that hit Overfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into OverfieldDeclared for Wyoming County only
Wyoming County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.
Around Overfield

Overfield and the towns around it

Falls: High, mostly inland floodingTunkhannock: High, mostly inland floodingClinton: High, mostly inland floodingExeter: High, mostly inland floodingEaton: High, mostly inland floodingWest Falls: High, mostly inland floodingNorthmoreland: Very high, mostly inland floodingWashington: High, mostly inland floodingTunkhannock: High, mostly inland floodingLemon: High, mostly inland floodingFactoryville: High, mostly inland floodingNicholson: High, mostly inland floodingBenton: Low, mostly inland floodingOverfield: High, mostly inland flooding OverfieldFallsTunkhannockClinton
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Overfieldmostly inland floodingHigh
Fallsmostly inland floodingHigh
Clintonmostly inland floodingHigh
Tunkhannockmostly inland floodingHigh
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. Overfield 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 Overfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Overfield. 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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