Natural hazards · Redstone

Redstone, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Redstone comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 22 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Redstone?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Redstone to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding88%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Redstone 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 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 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 Redstone flood?

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

22paid claims since 1978

$106Kpaid to owners

3homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Sandy: 1 claim, $2K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fayette County.

Disasters that hit Redstone

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RedstoneDeclared for Fayette County only

Fayette County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and severe storms.

Around Redstone

Redstone and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingHigh

Luzernemostly inland floodingHigh

Brownsvillemostly inland floodingHigh

Germanmostly inland floodingModerate

Redstonemostly inland floodingModerate

Menallenmostly inland floodingModerate

Franklinmostly 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. Redstone covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Redstone’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Redstone. 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 Redstone total about $1.5M 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.