Natural hazards · Weigelstown

Weigelstown, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Weigelstown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Weigelstown?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Weigelstown to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Hurricanes10%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Weigelstown faces

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

Inland flooding

71% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce 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 Weigelstown flood?

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

9paid claims since 1979

$199Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ida: 2 claims, $56K
Tropical Storm Lee: 1 claim, $88K
Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $19K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: York County.

Disasters that hit Weigelstown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WeigelstownDeclared for York County only

York County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Weigelstown

Weigelstown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Weigelstownmostly inland floodingModerate

Dovermostly inland floodingModerate

Shilohmostly inland floodingModerate

Conewagomostly inland floodingLow

West Manchestermostly inland floodingLow

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. Weigelstown covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Weigelstown’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Weigelstown. 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 Weigelstown total about $3.6M 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.