Natural hazards · Vintondale

Vintondale, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vintondale comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Vintondale?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vintondale to be higher than in 12% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Cold waves7%Tornadoes6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Vintondale 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

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Vintondale flood?

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

1paid claims since 1983

$532paid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Vintondale 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 Vintondale

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VintondaleDeclared for Cambria County only

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

Around Vintondale

Vintondale and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Vintondalemostly inland floodingVery low

Blacklickmostly inland floodingVery low

Jacksonmostly 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. Vintondale is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Vintondale’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Vintondale. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.