Natural hazards · Cherrytree

Cherrytree, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cherrytree comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1990.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cherrytree?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cherrytree to be higher than in 8% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Strong wind10%Lightning8%Tornadoes7%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Cherrytree 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 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lightning

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 35 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesAvalanches

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 Cherrytree flood?

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

3paid claims since 1990

$54Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19902026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Cherrytree 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 Cherrytree

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CherrytreeDeclared for Venango County only

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

Around Cherrytree

Cherrytree and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cornplantermostly inland floodingHigh

Oil Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

Oaklandmostly inland floodingModerate

Plummostly inland floodingModerate

Troymostly inland floodingVery low

Cherrytreemostly inland floodingVery low

Oil Creekmostly 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. Cherrytree 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 Cherrytree’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Cherrytree. 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.