Natural hazards · Westfall

Westfall, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Westfall comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 68 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Westfall?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Westfall to be higher than in 85% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding89%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Westfall faces

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

Inland flooding

89% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Westfall flood?

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

68paid claims since 1979

$1.4Mpaid to owners

20homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 5 claims, $65K
Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $4K
Torrential rain: 1 claim, $214

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (2) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pike County.

Disasters that hit Westfall

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WestfallDeclared for Pike County only

Pike County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Westfall

Westfall and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Westfallmostly inland floodingVery high

Port Jervismostly inland floodingVery high

Milfordmostly inland floodingVery high

Matamorasmostly inland floodingHigh

Montaguemostly inland floodingHigh

Deerparkmostly inland floodingHigh

Lumberlandmostly inland floodingLow

Shoholamostly 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. Westfall covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Westfall’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Westfall. 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 Westfall total about $2.8M 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.