Montour County, PA Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Montour County, PA: what NOAA's tornado record says
Since 1979, NOAA has logged 4 tornado tracks crossing Montour County - one about every 18.9 years, which lands it in our Minimal band. Nationally, Montour County ranks at the 13th percentile for tornado frequency. Within Pennsylvania alone, Montour County ranks 66 of 67 counties for tornado frequency.
Montour County's EF4-5 history
Montour County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 4 tracks split 4 weak and 0 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Montour County
For a Montour County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Pennsylvania-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
The storm that misses Montour County outright can still take its power out - outbreak-scale outages across Pennsylvania are common well beyond the tracked path. A battery-backup unit handles that without a generator's setup or fuel.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Montour County covers about 130 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Montour County has about 18,115 residents.