Natural hazards · West Fairview

West Fairview, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in West Fairview 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 West Fairview?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in West Fairview to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding85%Everything else15%

By hazard

What West Fairview faces

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

Inland flooding

85% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 West Fairview flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cumberland County.

Disasters that hit West Fairview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into West FairviewDeclared for Cumberland County only

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

Around West Fairview

West Fairview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

West Fairviewmostly inland floodingHigh

Wormleysburgmostly inland floodingHigh

Harrisburgmostly inland floodingHigh

Enolamostly inland floodingLow

East Pennsboromostly 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. West Fairview 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 West Fairview’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to West Fairview. 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.