Natural hazards · Batavia

Batavia, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Batavia comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Batavia?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Batavia to be higher than in 3% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding39%Tornadoes17%Cold waves15%Heat waves8%Strong wind7%Earthquakes5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Batavia faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 5% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Batavia flood?

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

9paid claims since 1980

$13Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

19802026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clermont County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Batavia

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BataviaDeclared for Clermont County only

Clermont County has had 15 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. Batavia covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Batavia’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Batavia. 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 Batavia total about $882K 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.