Natural hazards · Canaan

Canaan, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Canaan comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Canaan?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding60%Tornadoes12%Hail7%Strong wind6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Canaan faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 78 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Canaan flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Canaan, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 1979

$10Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Canaan 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 Canaan

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CanaanDeclared for Wayne County only

Wayne County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Canaan

Canaan and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Miltonmostly inland floodingVery low

Burbankmostly inland floodingVery low

Canaanmostly inland floodingVery low

Congressmostly inland floodingVery low

Westfieldmostly inland floodingVery low

Waynemostly 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. Canaan covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

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

FEMA’s expected losses across Canaan total about $1.3M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.