Natural hazards · Austintown

Austintown, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Austintown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 52 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Austintown?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Austintown to be higher than in 9% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding54%Tornadoes21%Strong wind6%Hail5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Austintown faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Austintown flood?

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

52paid claims since 1978

$371Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $4K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mahoning County.

Disasters that hit Austintown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AustintownDeclared for Mahoning County only

Mahoning County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Austintown

Austintown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Canfieldmostly inland floodingVery low

Austintownmostly inland floodingVery low

Youngstownmostly 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. Austintown covers 6 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Austintown’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Austintown. 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 Austintown total about $3.9M 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.