Natural hazards · Slocum

Slocum, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Slocum comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Slocum?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Slocum to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Cold waves10%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Slocum faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% 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 Slocum flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Luzerne County.

Disasters that hit Slocum

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SlocumDeclared for Luzerne County only

Luzerne County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Slocum

Slocum and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Conynghammostly inland floodingHigh

Newportmostly inland floodingModerate

Slocummostly inland floodingLow

Dorrancemostly inland floodingLow

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