Natural hazards · Skippack

Skippack, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Skippack comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 97 claims here since 1978. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Skippack?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Skippack to be higher than in 9% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding58%Cold waves13%Heat waves7%Tornadoes7%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Skippack faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Skippack flood?

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

97paid claims since 1978

$3.3Mpaid to owners

15homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 12 claims, $554K
Hurricane Ida: 11 claims, $1.6M
Hurricane Isaias: 10 claims, $415K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (9) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Montgomery County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Skippack

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Skippack itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Skippack.

Brought FEMA money into SkippackDeclared for Montgomery County only

2021

Remnants of Hurricane Ida

3 households applied for aid $300 aid approved

2006

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

1 household applied for aid $986 aid approved

Montgomery County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Skippack

Skippack and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Perkiomenmostly inland floodingLow

Upper Salfordmostly inland floodingLow

Lower Salfordmostly inland floodingVery low

Worcestermostly inland floodingVery low

Lower Providencemostly inland floodingVery low

Skippackmostly 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. Skippack covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Skippack’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Skippack. 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 Skippack total about $3.8M 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.