Natural hazards · Paxtang

Paxtang, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Paxtang comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 37 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Paxtang?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Paxtang to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding77%Hurricanes5%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Paxtang faces

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

Inland flooding

77% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 Paxtang flood?

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

37paid claims since 1979

$237Kpaid to owners

4homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Lee: 7 claims, $47K
Not a named storm: 3 claims, $5K
Tropical Storm Ivan: 2 claims, $12K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (2) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dauphin County.

Disasters that hit Paxtang

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PaxtangDeclared for Dauphin County only

Dauphin County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Paxtang

Paxtang and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Harrisburgmostly inland floodingHigh

Paxtangmostly inland floodingModerate

Swataramostly 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. Paxtang covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Paxtang’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Paxtang. 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 Paxtang total about $593K 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.