Natural hazards · Venango

Venango, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Venango comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

How exposed is Venango?

22
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Venango to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Everything else18%
By hazard

What Venango faces

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

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Venango flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Venango.

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Venango isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Crawford County.
Disasters that hit Venango

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VenangoDeclared for Crawford County only
Crawford County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.
Around Venango

Venango and the towns around it

Cambridge: Low, mostly inland floodingVenango: Low, mostly inland floodingRockdale: Low, mostly inland floodingWoodcock: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLeBoeuf: Very low, mostly inland floodingWashington: Very low, mostly inland floodingWoodcock: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCussewago: Low, mostly inland floodingHayfield: Very low, mostly inland floodingVenango: Low, mostly inland flooding VenangoCambridgeVenango
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Venangomostly inland floodingLow
Venangomostly inland floodingLow
Cambridgemostly 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. Venango 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 Venango’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Venango. 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.

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