Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Forest, PA

Pennsylvania · pop. 6,973 · FIPS 42053

Very Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Lightning
dominant hazard
$5M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Forest $5M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexVery Low 19.91/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Social vulnerabilityVery High 84.1/100
national median ~50 higher than 84% of counties
Community resilienceRelatively Low 25/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (25th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Forest

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 14 flood-insurance claims totaling $194K in Forest since 1979. The costliest year was 2014 ($169K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $270 paid 1981: $15,600 paid 1982: $2,133 paid 1984: $4,471 paid 1996: $1,812 paid 2011: $362 paid 2014: $168,546 paid 2016: $0 paid 2021: $372 paid 2014 · $169K 1979 2021
$194K
total paid
$13,826
average claim
$139K
largest single claim
64%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Forest, PA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Forest is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.