Natural hazards · Cranberry

Cranberry, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cranberry comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 40 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cranberry?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cranberry to be higher than in 11% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding84%Tornadoes5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Cranberry faces

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

Inland flooding

84% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Cranberry flood?

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

40paid claims since 1981

$385Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19812026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 3 claims, $46K

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. Cranberry isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Butler County.

Disasters that hit Cranberry

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CranberryDeclared for Butler County only

Butler County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Cranberry

Cranberry and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Economymostly inland floodingLow

Jacksonmostly inland floodingLow

Adamsmostly inland floodingVery low

Seven Fieldsmostly inland floodingVery low

New Sewickleymostly inland floodingVery low

Cranberrymostly inland floodingVery low

Marshallmostly 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. Cranberry covers 7 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Cranberry’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Cranberry. 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 Cranberry total about $6.9M 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.