Natural hazards · Upper Yoder

Upper Yoder, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Upper Yoder comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Upper Yoder?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Upper Yoder to be higher than in 5% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding65%Cold waves10%Tornadoes7%Strong wind5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Upper Yoder faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Upper Yoder flood?

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

9paid claims since 1978

$16Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cambria County.

Disasters that hit Upper Yoder

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Upper YoderDeclared for Cambria County only

Cambria County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Upper Yoder

Upper Yoder and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fairfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Johnstownmostly inland floodingModerate

Ferndalemostly inland floodingLow

Stonycreekmostly inland floodingLow

Conemaughmostly inland floodingVery low

Lower Yodermostly inland floodingVery low

Upper Yodermostly inland floodingVery low

Westmontmostly inland floodingVery low

Southmontmostly 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. Upper Yoder covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Upper Yoder’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Upper Yoder. 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 Upper Yoder total about $759K 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.