Natural hazards · Tell

Tell, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tell comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Tell?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tell to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and strong winds.

Inland flooding66%Strong wind18%Hurricanes7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Tell faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

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 Tell flood?

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

3paid claims since 1996

$5Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Huntingdon County.

Disasters that hit Tell

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TellDeclared for Huntingdon County only

Huntingdon County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Tell

Tell and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cromwellmostly inland floodingHigh

Lackmostly inland floodingHigh

Shirleymostly inland floodingHigh

Tellmostly inland floodingModerate

Dublinmostly inland floodingModerate

Fannettmostly 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. Tell covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Tell’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Tell. 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 Tell total about $675K 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.