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Floods in Pennsylvania

Property owners in Pennsylvania have filed 75,803 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $1.4 billion paid.

  • 75,803flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $1.4Bpaid on those claims
  • 1996most claims in one year, 10,968
  • 7thamong the states for claims
2025
  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in Pennsylvania per year 1978: 1,970 1979: 4,362 1980: 725 1981: 1,098 1982: 700 1983: 1,163 1984: 2,476 1985: 1,112 1986: 569 1987: 580 1988: 141 1989: 555 1990: 403 1991: 174 1992: 166 1993: 1,207 1994: 851 1995: 212 1996: 10,968 10,968 1997: 448 1998: 219 1999: 2,576 2000: 630 2001: 689 2002: 138 2003: 1,093 2004: 10,083 2005: 2,111 2006: 4,270 2007: 507 2008: 224 2009: 685 2010: 1,405 2011: 10,570 2012: 398 2013: 782 2014: 711 2015: 253 2016: 291 2017: 530 2018: 2,138 2019: 704 2020: 1,294 2021: 2,240 2022: 114 2023: 299 2024: 589 2025: 206 1978198319881993199820032008201320182023

The deadliest floods since 1996

Notable events
Sep 7, 2011FloodAdams, Bedford, Blair10$192 million
Jul 15, 2023Flash FloodBucks7—
Sep 16, 1999Flash FloodBerks, Bucks, Carbon6$60.0 million
Jan 19, 1996Flash FloodLycoming6—
Aug 19, 2011Flash FloodAllegheny, Beaver, Clarion4$1.7 million
Jan 19, 1996Flash FloodJuniata4—
Jun 27, 2006Flash FloodLuzerne3$100 million
Jan 19, 1996FloodBerks, Bucks, Carbon3$42.3 million
Sep 17, 2004FloodAdams, Bedford, Blair2$50.0 million
Jul 19, 1996Flash FloodClarion1$75.0 million
Sep 18, 2004Flash FloodLuzerne0$100 million

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

Floods by county in Pennsylvania
Montgomery County6,200
Bucks County5,260
Dauphin County5,248
Allegheny County4,832
Luzerne County4,147
Lycoming County3,878
Delaware County3,034
Columbia County2,200
Lancaster County2,106
Chester County1,914
York County1,753
Northumberland County1,721
Philadelphia County1,700
Westmoreland County1,612
Cumberland County1,600
Northampton County1,561
Lackawanna County1,369
Berks County1,313
Wyoming County1,189
Bedford County1,185
Washington County1,131
Blair County1,117
Schuylkill County1,041
Lebanon County1,005
Lehigh County967
Union County927
Clinton County911
Snyder County904
Bradford County898
Butler County874
Beaver County832
Cambria County802
Perry County749
Fayette County722
Clearfield County537
Huntingdon County531
Erie County512
Susquehanna County506
Mifflin County487
Armstrong County437
Monroe County436
Venango County429
Adams County400
Somerset County395
Indiana County387
Jefferson County373
Centre County339
Crawford County330
Elk County322
Greene County265
Tioga County234
Wayne County221
Pike County219
Lawrence County207
Clarion County189
Franklin County188
Juniata County178
McKean County158
Montour County154
Sullivan County134
Warren County126
Mercer County120
Carbon County94
Potter County90
Cameron County73
Fulton County16
Forest County14

This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency’s website(s).