Natural hazards · Cranesville

Cranesville, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cranesville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cranesville?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cranesville to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Strong wind6%Lightning6%Tornadoes5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Cranesville faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 97 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslides

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 Cranesville flood?

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

2paid claims since 1980

$7Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Erie County.

Disasters that hit Cranesville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CranesvilleDeclared for Erie County only

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

Around Cranesville

Cranesville and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cranesvillemostly inland floodingVery low

Elk Creekmostly inland floodingVery low

Conneautmostly 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. Cranesville 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 Cranesville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Cranesville. 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.