Natural hazards · Boston Heights

Boston Heights, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Boston Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Boston Heights?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Boston Heights to be higher than in 12% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding66%Hail13%Tornadoes7%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Boston Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 88 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Boston Heights flood?

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

2paid claims since 2003

$6Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Summit County.

Disasters that hit Boston Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Boston HeightsDeclared for Summit County only

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

Around Boston Heights

Boston Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Boston Heightsmostly inland floodingVery low

Hudsonmostly inland floodingVery low

Bostonmostly inland floodingVery low

Peninsulamostly inland floodingVery low

Northfield Centermostly 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. Boston Heights 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 Boston Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Boston Heights. 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.