Natural hazards · Whiteley

Whiteley, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Whiteley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 38 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Whiteley?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Whiteley to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding87%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Whiteley faces

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

Inland flooding

87% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Whiteley flood?

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

38paid claims since 1980

$396Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 12 claims, $171K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Greene County.

Disasters that hit Whiteley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WhiteleyDeclared for Greene County only

Greene County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Whiteley

Whiteley and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Waynemostly inland floodingHigh

Perrymostly inland floodingHigh

Dunkardmostly inland floodingHigh

Whiteleymostly inland floodingHigh

Greenemostly inland floodingHigh

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingHigh

Franklinmostly 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. Whiteley covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Whiteley’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Whiteley. 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 Whiteley total about $2.0M 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.