Natural hazards · Snyder

Snyder, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Snyder comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 29 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Snyder?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Snyder to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding84%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Snyder 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 75% 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 Snyder flood?

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

29paid claims since 1979

$523Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 11 claims, $421K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Blair County.

Disasters that hit Snyder

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SnyderDeclared for Blair County only

Blair County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Snyder

Snyder and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Taylormostly inland floodingHigh

Warriors Markmostly inland floodingModerate

Antismostly inland floodingModerate

Snydermostly inland floodingModerate

Tyronemostly inland floodingLow

Gulichmostly 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. Snyder covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Snyder’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Snyder. 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 Snyder total about $1.7M 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.