America's Preparedness Report Card 2015

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Inland Flooding

Pennsylvania has taken more action to understand its vulnerabilities to climate change-related inland flooding risks, and to plan for those changes, than most states. To improve its preparedness, the state should increase its efforts to put those plans into action.

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For more information on how prepared Pennsylvania is for its growing inland flooding threat, read the detailed state summary.

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Is Pennsylvania Taking Action?

  • The Pennsylvania Department of Health keeps state-level statistics on the counts of deaths from inland flooding
  • The Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Assessment includes extensive information on modeling of future precipitation and projected impacts on different sectors throughout the state
  • The Pennsylvania Climate Adaptation Planning Report contains a discussion of adaptation measures for infrastructure and public health sectors to address current and future risks, including heavy downpours and inland flooding

Did you know...

  • More than 430,000 people in Pennsylvania are living in flood-prone areas (defined as FEMA’s 100-year floodplain). This ranks in the top five states among the 32 assessed for inland flooding threat
  • By 2050, Pennsylvania’s inland flooding threat is projected to increase by 40 percent (assuming the size of the vulnerable population stays the same)