Photo: Shuvaev · CC BY-SA 4.0Storms, floods and disasters in Valley View
Valley View isn’t graded for hazard risk: Valley View is a Census area inside a town, graded with the town. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2006.
What Valley View faces
Each hazard’s share of the building damage FEMA expects here, and how its rate compares with the rest of the country.
River and rain flooding
Hurricanes
Shares are of FEMA’s expected building damage, the measure the grade uses; ranks compare each hazard’s building-damage rate with all 85,154 U.S. census tracts. In FEMA’s terms, river and rain flooding is FEMA’s “Inland Flooding” (rivers and streams overflowing their banks, or rain overwhelming drainage). FEMA defines coastal flooding as high or rising tides and storm surge, so surge damage is counted there. Drought isn’t listed: FEMA counts its losses in crops only.
Does Valley View flood? Rarely: 3 flood claims since 2006
Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Valley View, from FEMA’s records.
- Tropical Storm Lee1 claim · $95K
Valley View isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Schuylkill County.The storms Valley View remembers
None of the 20 disasters declared for Schuylkill County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Valley View itself in FEMA’s records, so these are its biggest flood-claim years.
- 20061 flood claims paidThe year of Severe Storms and Flooding, declared for Schuylkill County
- 20081 flood claims paidNo declaration for the county that year
- 20111 flood claims paidThe year of Tropical Storm Lee, declared for Schuylkill County
Schuylkill County has had 20 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often severe storms, then floods. Not counted: the 2005 Hurricane Katrina evacuee emergency, which covered counties that took in evacuees.
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Add to the Valley View archive →Get ready for what Valley View faces
A short kit for the hazards that drive the building damage here, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- The season runs June through November and peaks from mid-August to mid-October.
- Bring in porch furniture and anything the wind can throw.
- Fill the gas tank and charge phones before the storm arrives.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
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Questions about natural hazards in Valley View
Does Valley View flood?
Flood insurance has paid 3 claims in Valley View since 2006, $102K in all. The most claims came from Tropical Storm Lee (1).
Is Valley View in a flood zone?
Flood zones are drawn street by street, so the answer depends on the address: look it up on FEMA’s flood map. In Schuylkill County, 17% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 1.0% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Valley View?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Valley View’s flood program. Premiums depend on the building; policies usually start 30 days after you buy, so get a quote early.
What was the biggest storm in Valley View?
By flood claims, Tropical Storm Lee: 1 paid, $95K.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Valley View.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Valley View’s residents lived in the 2020 census; 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. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. FEMA’s model is an average of expected damage, not a forecast. How hazard risk is graded.