Natural hazards · Ravine

Ravine, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ravine comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Ravine?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ravine to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding78%Everything else22%

By hazard

What Ravine faces

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

Inland flooding

78% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% 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 Ravine flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Ravine.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Ravine 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.

Disasters that hit Ravine

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RavineDeclared for Schuylkill County only

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. Ravine 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 Ravine’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Ravine. 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.