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Piatt, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Piatt comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 54 claims here since 1979. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Piatt?

74
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Piatt to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding88%Everything else12%
By hazard

What Piatt 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
Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times 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 Piatt flood?

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

54paid claims since 1979
$551Kpaid to owners
9homes flooded more than once
19792026

Biggest named events

  • Tropical Storm Ivan: 28 claims, $409K
  • Not a named storm: 1 claim, $32

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Piatt isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Lycoming County.
Disasters that hit Piatt

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Piatt itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Piatt.

Brought FEMA money into PiattDeclared for Lycoming County only
2018

Severe Storms and Flooding

$31K to the Township of Piatt for repairs
2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

$15K to the Township of Piatt for repairs
2011

Tropical Storm Lee

$14K to the Township of Piatt for repairs
2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

$33K to the Township of Piatt for repairs
2003

Snow

$4K to the Township of Piatt for repairs
Lycoming County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Piatt

Piatt and the towns around it

Woodward: High, mostly inland floodingNippenose: Low, mostly inland floodingPorter: High, mostly inland floodingSusquehanna: High, mostly inland floodingMifflin: High, mostly inland floodingOld Lycoming: High, mostly inland floodingAnthony: High, mostly inland floodingWilliamsport: Low, mostly inland floodingJersey Shore: High, mostly inland floodingLimestone: Low, mostly inland floodingWayne: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPine Creek: High, mostly inland floodingWatson: Very high, mostly inland floodingBastress: Low, mostly inland floodingCogan House: High, mostly inland floodingCummings: Very high, mostly inland floodingPiatt: High, mostly inland flooding PiattWoodwardNippenosePorterSusquehannaMifflin
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Piattmostly inland floodingHigh
Mifflinmostly inland floodingHigh
Woodwardmostly inland floodingHigh
Susquehannamostly inland floodingHigh
Portermostly inland floodingHigh
Nippenosemostly 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. Piatt 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 Piatt’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Piatt. 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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