Natural hazards · Tyrone

Tyrone, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tyrone comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Tyrone?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tyrone to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Hurricanes8%Heat waves7%Strong wind6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Tyrone 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

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Tyrone flood?

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

14paid claims since 1996

$254Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Lee: 3 claims, $83K
Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $72K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Perry County.

Disasters that hit Tyrone

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TyroneDeclared for Perry County only

Perry County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Tyrone

Tyrone and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Northeast Madisonmostly inland floodingHigh

Tyronemostly inland floodingModerate

Savillemostly inland floodingModerate

Springmostly inland floodingModerate

Upper Frankfordmostly inland floodingVery low

Lower Mifflinmostly inland floodingVery low

Lower Frankfordmostly 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. Tyrone covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

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