Natural hazards · Pulaski

Pulaski, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pulaski comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pulaski?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pulaski to be higher than in 12% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Tornadoes6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Pulaski faces

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

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Pulaski flood?

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

1paid claims since 1980

$238paid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Beaver County.

Disasters that hit Pulaski

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PulaskiDeclared for Beaver County only

Beaver County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Pulaski

Pulaski and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

New Brightonmostly inland floodingModerate

Daughertymostly inland floodingLow

Pulaskimostly inland floodingVery low

Rochestermostly 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. Pulaski covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pulaski’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pulaski. 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 Pulaski total about $229K 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.