Natural hazards · Canal

Canal, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Canal comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Canal?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Canal to be higher than in 73% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding86%Strong wind5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Canal faces

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

Inland flooding

86% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtTsunamisVolcanic 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 Canal flood?

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

1paid claims since 2003

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Venango County.

Disasters that hit Canal

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CanalDeclared for Venango County only

Venango County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Canal

Canal and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Canalmostly inland floodingHigh

Frenchcreekmostly inland floodingHigh

Uticamostly inland floodingHigh

Jacksonmostly inland floodingModerate

Waynemostly inland floodingModerate

Sugarcreekmostly inland floodingLow

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. Canal covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Canal’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Canal. 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 Canal total about $1.1M 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.