Natural hazards · Pine Grove

Pine Grove, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pine Grove comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 215 claims here since 1979. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pine Grove?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pine Grove to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding85%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Pine Grove faces

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

Inland flooding

85% 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 Pine Grove flood?

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

215paid claims since 1979

$8.7Mpaid to owners

43homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Lee: 84 claims, $4.7M
Tropical Storm Ivan: 36 claims, $2.1M
Not a named storm: 2 claims, $14K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (7) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Schuylkill County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

19flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Pine Grove

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Pine Grove itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Borough of Pine Grove.

Brought FEMA money into Pine GroveDeclared for Schuylkill County only

2011

Tropical Storm Lee

418 households applied for aid $1.6M aid approved

2006

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

67 households applied for aid $102K aid approved

2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

103 households applied for aid $186K aid approved

Schuylkill County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Pine Grove covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pine Grove’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Pine Grove. 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 Pine Grove total about $1.3M 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.