Natural hazards · Scrubgrass

Scrubgrass, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Scrubgrass comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Scrubgrass?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Scrubgrass to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding89%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Scrubgrass faces

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

Inland flooding

89% 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 windLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Scrubgrass flood?

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

2paid claims since 1981

$64Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Venango County.

Disasters that hit Scrubgrass

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ScrubgrassDeclared for Venango County only

Venango County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Scrubgrass

Scrubgrass and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Scrubgrassmostly inland floodingHigh

Rocklandmostly inland floodingHigh

Kennerdellmostly inland floodingHigh

Emlentonmostly inland floodingHigh

Richlandmostly inland floodingHigh

Alleghenymostly inland floodingModerate

Cherry Valleymostly inland floodingLow

Richlandmostly inland floodingLow

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