Natural hazards · Aid

Aid, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Aid comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2004. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Aid?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Aid to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Heat waves13%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Aid faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Aid flood?

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

3paid claims since 2004

$42Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20042026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $22K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lawrence County.

Disasters that hit Aid

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Aid itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Aid.

Brought FEMA money into AidDeclared for Lawrence County only

2011

Severe Storms and Flooding

$6K to the Township of Aid for repairs

2003

Severe Winter Storm and Record/Near Record Snow

$29K to the Township of Aid for repairs

Lawrence County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Aid

Aid and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Symmesmostly inland floodingVery high

Aidmostly inland floodingHigh

Lawrencemostly inland floodingHigh

Masonmostly inland floodingHigh

Elizabethmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Aid covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Aid’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Aid. 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 Aid total about $1.1M 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.