Natural hazards · Biglick

Biglick, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Biglick comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 1992.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Biglick?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Biglick to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes14%Hail12%Cold waves6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Biglick faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 21 years in the area

Hail

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Biglick flood?

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

14paid claims since 1992

$224Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19922026

Biggest named events

Late winter storms: 1 claim, $6K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hancock County.

Disasters that hit Biglick

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BiglickDeclared for Hancock County only

Hancock County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Biglick

Biglick and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Marionmostly inland floodingHigh

Amandamostly inland floodingHigh

Biglickmostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Big Springmostly inland floodingLow

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. Biglick covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Biglick’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Biglick. 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 Biglick total about $2.3M 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.