Natural hazards · Yeadon

Yeadon, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yeadon comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 13 claims here since 1999. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Yeadon?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Yeadon to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding49%Earthquakes13%Heat waves12%Cold waves8%Tornadoes7%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Yeadon faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 16% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Yeadon flood?

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

13paid claims since 1999

$95Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19992026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Floyd: 2 claims, $11K
Hurricane Irene: 1 claim, $37K
Hurricane Isaias: 1 claim, $10K

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. Yeadon isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Delaware County.

Disasters that hit Yeadon

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Yeadon itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Borough of Yeadon.

Brought FEMA money into YeadonDeclared for Delaware County only

2021

Remnants of Hurricane Ida

139 households applied for aid $275K aid approved

2011

Tropical Storm Lee

41 households applied for aid $57K aid approved

2011

Hurricane Irene

221 households applied for aid $134K aid approved

2004

Tropical Depression Ivan

9 households applied for aid $17K aid approved

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

28 households applied for aid $40K aid approved

Delaware County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Yeadon

Yeadon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Darbymostly inland floodingModerate

Philadelphiamostly inland floodingModerate

Upper Darbymostly inland floodingLow

Lansdownemostly inland floodingLow

Yeadonmostly 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. Yeadon covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Yeadon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Yeadon. 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 Yeadon total about $2.3M 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.