Natural hazards · Botkins

Botkins, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Botkins comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Botkins?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Botkins to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding43%Earthquakes28%Tornadoes13%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Botkins faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 15% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

28% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 27 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Botkins flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Shelby County.

Disasters that hit Botkins

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BotkinsDeclared for Shelby County only

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$4K to the Village of Botkins for repairs

2004

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

1 household applied for aid $824 aid approved $14K to the Village of Botkins for repairs

2004

Snow

$3K to the Village of Botkins for repairs

Shelby County has had 12 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. Botkins 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 Botkins’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Botkins. 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.