Natural hazards · Cornplanter

Cornplanter, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cornplanter comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cornplanter?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cornplanter to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding88%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Cornplanter faces

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

Inland flooding

88% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanches

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 Cornplanter flood?

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

10paid claims since 1978

$174Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Cornplanter 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 Cornplanter

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CornplanterDeclared for Venango County only

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

Around Cornplanter

Cornplanter and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cornplantermostly inland floodingHigh

Presidentmostly inland floodingHigh

Oaklandmostly inland floodingModerate

Oil Citymostly inland floodingModerate

Sugarcreekmostly inland floodingLow

Cranberrymostly inland floodingVery low

Cherrytreemostly inland floodingVery low

Oil Creekmostly inland floodingVery low

Alleghenymostly 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. Cornplanter 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 Cornplanter’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Cornplanter. 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.