Natural hazards · Richhill

Richhill, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Richhill comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2004.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Richhill?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Richhill to be higher than in 61% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding85%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Richhill 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 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 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 Richhill flood?

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

1paid claims since 2004

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20042026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $2K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Greene County.

Disasters that hit Richhill

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RichhillDeclared for Greene County only

Greene County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Richhill

Richhill and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Morrismostly inland floodingHigh

Richhillmostly inland floodingHigh

Graymostly inland floodingHigh

Aleppomostly inland floodingHigh

Centermostly inland floodingHigh

Jacksonmostly inland floodingHigh

West Finleymostly inland floodingModerate

East Finleymostly inland floodingModerate

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