Natural hazards · Canoe

Canoe, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Canoe comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Canoe?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Canoe to be higher than in 21% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Cold waves6%Landslides6%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Canoe faces

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

Inland flooding

71% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Landslides

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesStrong windLightning

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 Canoe flood?

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

6paid claims since 1978

$56Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19782026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Indiana County.

Disasters that hit Canoe

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CanoeDeclared for Indiana County only

Indiana County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Canoe

Canoe and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Grantmostly inland floodingModerate

Bellmostly inland floodingLow

Canoemostly inland floodingLow

Banksmostly inland floodingLow

North Mahoningmostly 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. Canoe covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Canoe’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Canoe. 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 Canoe total about $800K 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.