Natural hazards · Wrightstown

Wrightstown, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wrightstown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wrightstown?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wrightstown to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Earthquakes8%Tornadoes6%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Wrightstown 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

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Wrightstown flood?

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

14paid claims since 1996

$633Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ida: 4 claims, $296K
Hurricane Irene: 4 claims, $201K
Hurricane Floyd: 2 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. Wrightstown isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Bucks County.

Disasters that hit Wrightstown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WrightstownDeclared for Bucks County only

Bucks County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Wrightstown

Wrightstown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Upper Makefieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Buckinghammostly inland floodingLow

Northamptonmostly inland floodingLow

Wrightstownmostly inland floodingVery low

Newtownmostly inland floodingVery low

Warwickmostly 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. Wrightstown covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wrightstown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wrightstown. 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 Wrightstown total about $1.3M 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.