Natural hazards · Wheatfield

Wheatfield, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wheatfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 30 claims here since 1984.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wheatfield?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wheatfield to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Strong wind8%Heat waves8%Hurricanes8%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Wheatfield faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Wheatfield flood?

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

30paid claims since 1984

$176Kpaid to owners

8homes flooded more than once

19842026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 10 claims, $88K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Perry County.

Disasters that hit Wheatfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WheatfieldDeclared for Perry County only

Perry County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Wheatfield

Wheatfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pennmostly inland floodingHigh

Ryemostly inland floodingHigh

Millermostly inland floodingHigh

Carrollmostly inland floodingModerate

Wheatfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Wattsmostly inland floodingModerate

Centremostly inland floodingModerate

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. Wheatfield covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wheatfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wheatfield. 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 Wheatfield total about $1.5M 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.