Natural hazards · Amanda

Amanda, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Amanda comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Amanda?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Amanda to be higher than in 13% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding46%Drought21%Tornadoes10%Heat waves5%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Amanda faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

21% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 40 years in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Amanda flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fairfield County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Amanda

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into AmandaDeclared for Fairfield County only

2008

Record Snow and Near Record Snow

$3K to the Village of Amanda for repairs

2004

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

4 households applied for aid $6K aid approved

Fairfield County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

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. Amanda 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 Amanda’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Amanda. 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.