Natural hazards · Springhill

Springhill, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Springhill comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1985.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Springhill?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Springhill to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding87%Tornadoes5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Springhill faces

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

Inland flooding

87% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 69 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Springhill flood?

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

6paid claims since 1985

$125Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19852026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fayette County.

Disasters that hit Springhill

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SpringhillDeclared for Fayette County only

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

Around Springhill

Springhill and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Dunkardmostly inland floodingHigh

Monongahelamostly inland floodingHigh

Springhillmostly inland floodingModerate

Nicholsonmostly inland floodingModerate

Point Marionmostly inland floodingModerate

Georgesmostly inland floodingLow

Whartonmostly 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. Springhill covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Springhill’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Springhill. 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 Springhill total about $1.4M 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.