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Natural hazards · Belle Center

Belle Center, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Belle Center comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Belle Center?

31
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Belle Center to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding64%Tornadoes12%Cold waves7%Everything else17%
By hazard

What Belle Center faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 24 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Belle Center flood?

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Belle Center isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Logan County.
Disasters that hit Belle Center

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Belle CenterDeclared for Logan County only
2024

Tornadoes

13 households applied for aid $34K aid approved
2004

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

119 households applied for aid $84K aid approved $64K to the Village of Belle Center for repairs
2004

Snow

$876 to the Village of Belle Center for repairs
2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

3 households applied for aid $4K aid approved
2003

Severe Storms and Flooding

4 households applied for aid $861 aid approved
Logan 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. Belle Center 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 Belle Center’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Belle Center. 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.

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