Natural hazards · Brandt

Brandt, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brandt comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brandt?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brandt to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding57%Tornadoes16%Cold waves7%Strong wind6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Brandt faces

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

Inland flooding

57% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 42 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Brandt flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Miami County.

Disasters that hit Brandt

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrandtDeclared for Miami County only

Miami County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Brandt

Brandt and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brandtmostly inland floodingVery low

Bethelmostly inland floodingVery low

Huber Heightsmostly 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. Brandt 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 Brandt’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Brandt. 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.