Natural hazards · Brown

Brown, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brown?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brown to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding60%Tornadoes11%Strong wind8%Cold waves7%Hail7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Brown faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 24 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Brown flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Knox County.

Disasters that hit Brown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrownDeclared for Knox County only

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

Around Brown

Brown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingLow

Brownmostly inland floodingLow

Pikemostly inland floodingLow

Howardmostly inland floodingVery low

Apple Valleymostly 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. Brown 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 Brown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Brown. 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.