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County hazard profile

Venango, PA

Pennsylvania · pop. 50,453 · FIPS 42121

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Lightning
dominant hazard
$16M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Venango $16M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexRelatively Low 55.6/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (56th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively High 63.71/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (64th percentile)
Community resilienceVery High 85.37/100
national median ~50 higher than 85% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Venango

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 429 flood-insurance claims totaling $5.9M in Venango since 1978. The costliest year was 1982 ($3.2M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $46,129 paid 1979: $186,902 paid 1980: $20,771 paid 1981: $1,265,142 paid 1982: $3,234,706 paid 1983: $6,921 paid 1984: $0 paid 1986: $13,847 paid 1987: $1,854 paid 1990: $27,706 paid 1994: $0 paid 1995: $0 paid 1996: $256,013 paid 2001: $26,227 paid 2003: $44,445 paid 2004: $23,095 paid 2006: $389,660 paid 2010: $12,166 paid 2011: $10,257 paid 2012: $559 paid 2013: $1,685 paid 2014: $85,712 paid 2015: $3,773 paid 2017: $9,168 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $180,542 paid 2020: $3,673 paid 2021: $8,273 paid 2022: $17,557 paid 2026: $23,088 paid 1982 · $3.2M 1978 2026
$5.9M
total paid
$13,753
average claim
$317K
largest single claim
37%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Venango, PA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Venango is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.