Natural hazards · Spring Brook

Spring Brook, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Spring Brook 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 Spring Brook?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Spring Brook to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Cold waves9%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Spring Brook faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Spring Brook flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lackawanna County.

Disasters that hit Spring Brook

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Spring BrookDeclared for Lackawanna County only

Lackawanna County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Spring Brook

Spring Brook and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Scrantonmostly inland floodingModerate

Jenkinsmostly inland floodingModerate

Pittstonmostly inland floodingLow

Spring Brookmostly inland floodingLow

Thornhurstmostly inland floodingLow

Cliftonmostly inland floodingLow

Moscowmostly inland floodingVery low

Covingtonmostly 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. Spring Brook 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 Spring Brook’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Spring Brook. 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.