Natural hazards · Wallace

Wallace, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wallace comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1984.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wallace?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wallace to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding66%Hurricanes6%Tornadoes6%Everything else23%

By hazard

What Wallace 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

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Wallace flood?

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

2paid claims since 1984

$1Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19842026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $397

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chester County.

Disasters that hit Wallace

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WallaceDeclared for Chester County only

Chester County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Wallace

Wallace and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wallacemostly inland floodingLow

Upper Uwchlanmostly inland floodingVery low

West Brandywinemostly inland floodingVery low

West Nantmealmostly inland floodingVery low

East Nantmealmostly 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. Wallace covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wallace’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wallace. 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 Wallace total about $1.3M 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.