Natural hazards · Roaring Brook

Roaring Brook, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Roaring Brook comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2018.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Roaring Brook?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Roaring Brook to be higher than in 15% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding70%Cold waves11%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Roaring Brook faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Roaring Brook flood?

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

2paid claims since 2018

$21Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20182026

Biggest named events

December Nor'easter: 1 claim, $2K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lackawanna County.

Disasters that hit Roaring Brook

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Roaring BrookDeclared for Lackawanna County only

Lackawanna County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Roaring Brook

Roaring Brook and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Scrantonmostly inland floodingModerate

Roaring Brookmostly inland floodingVery low

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingVery low

Moscowmostly inland floodingVery low

Dunmoremostly inland floodingVery low

Madisonmostly 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. Roaring Brook covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Roaring Brook’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Roaring Brook. 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 Roaring Brook total about $1.3M 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.