Natural hazards · Wright

Wright, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wright comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 23 claims here since 2004.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wright?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wright to be higher than in 11% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding70%Cold waves9%Tornadoes5%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Wright faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Wright flood?

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

23paid claims since 2004

$460Kpaid to owners

5homes flooded more than once

20042026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Irene: 5 claims, $115K
Hurricane Ida: 2 claims, $109K
Tropical Storm Ivan: 2 claims, $57K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (3) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Luzerne County.

Disasters that hit Wright

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WrightDeclared for Luzerne County only

Luzerne County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Wright

Wright and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ricemostly inland floodingModerate

Dennisonmostly inland floodingModerate

Dorrancemostly inland floodingLow

Fairviewmostly inland floodingLow

Wrightmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Wright covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wright’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wright. 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 Wright total about $1.7M 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.