Natural hazards · Brimfield

Brimfield, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brimfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brimfield?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brimfield to be higher than in 9% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Tornadoes11%Hail7%Strong wind6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Brimfield faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Brimfield flood?

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

3paid claims since 1978

$11Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Portage County.

Disasters that hit Brimfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrimfieldDeclared for Portage County only

Portage County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Brimfield

Brimfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Franklinmostly inland floodingLow

Kentmostly inland floodingLow

Stowmostly inland floodingVery low

Tallmadgemostly inland floodingVery low

Rootstownmostly inland floodingVery low

Mogadoremostly inland floodingVery low

Suffieldmostly inland floodingVery low

Brimfieldmostly 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. Brimfield covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Brimfield’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Brimfield. 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 Brimfield total about $1.9M 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.