Natural hazards · Pocopson

Pocopson, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pocopson comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 121 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pocopson?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pocopson to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding76%Everything else24%

By hazard

What Pocopson faces

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

Inland flooding

76% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Pocopson flood?

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

121paid claims since 1978

$3.9Mpaid to owners

25homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Floyd: 21 claims, $725K
Not a named storm: 10 claims, $27K
Hurricane Irene: 8 claims, $782K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (6) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chester County.

Disasters that hit Pocopson

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PocopsonDeclared for Chester County only

Chester County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Pocopson

Pocopson and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pocopsonmostly inland floodingModerate

East Bradfordmostly inland floodingLow

Birminghammostly inland floodingLow

Newlinmostly inland floodingLow

East Marlboroughmostly inland floodingLow

Pennsburymostly inland floodingVery low

West Bradfordmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Pocopson covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pocopson’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pocopson. 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 Pocopson total about $2.3M 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.