Natural hazards · Canon

Canon, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Canon comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Canon?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Canon to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding50%Cold waves13%Tornadoes13%Hurricanes5%Earthquakes5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Canon faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 71 years in the area

Hurricanes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 35 years in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Canon flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Canon.

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Canon isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Franklin County.

Disasters that hit Canon

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Franklin County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Canon itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into CanonDeclared for Franklin County only

Franklin County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Canon is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Canon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Canon. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); 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. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.