Natural hazards · Parks

Parks, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Parks comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Parks?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Parks to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding93%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Parks faces

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

Inland flooding

93% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Parks flood?

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

9paid claims since 1978

$97Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $54K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Armstrong County.

Disasters that hit Parks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ParksDeclared for Armstrong County only

Armstrong County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Parks

Parks and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Parksmostly inland floodingHigh

Gilpinmostly inland floodingHigh

Vandergriftmostly inland floodingHigh

Bethelmostly inland floodingModerate

Burrellmostly inland floodingModerate

Hyde Parkmostly inland floodingLow

Alleghenymostly inland floodingLow

Kiskiminetasmostly inland floodingLow

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. Parks covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Parks’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Parks. 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 Parks total about $1.1M 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.