Natural hazards · Versailles

Versailles, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Versailles comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Versailles?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Versailles to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding88%Cold waves6%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Versailles faces

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

Inland flooding

88% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Versailles flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Allegheny County.

Disasters that hit Versailles

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VersaillesDeclared for Allegheny County only

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

Around Versailles

Versailles and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Versaillesmostly inland floodingHigh

Lincolnmostly inland floodingModerate

McKeesportmostly inland floodingModerate

Elizabethmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Versailles covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Versailles’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Versailles. 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 Versailles total about $585K 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.