Natural hazards · Rush

Rush, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rush 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 Rush?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rush to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding84%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Rush faces

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

Inland flooding

84% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Rush flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dauphin County.

Disasters that hit Rush

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RushDeclared for Dauphin County only

Dauphin County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Rush

Rush and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rushmostly inland floodingHigh

Middle Paxtonmostly inland floodingHigh

East Hanovermostly inland floodingModerate

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