Natural hazards · Gananda

Gananda, NY natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Gananda?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Gananda to be higher than in 17% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding73%Tornadoes6%Strong wind5%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Gananda faces

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

Inland flooding

73% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Gananda flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wayne County.

Disasters that hit Gananda

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GanandaDeclared for Wayne County only

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

Around Gananda

Gananda and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ganandamostly inland floodingVery low

Walworthmostly inland floodingVery low

Macedonmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Gananda 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 Gananda’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Gananda. 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.