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 high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brown?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brown to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding79%Everything else21%

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

79% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Brown flood?

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

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: Vinton County.

Disasters that hit Brown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrownDeclared for Vinton County only

Vinton County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Brown

Brown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brownmostly inland floodingHigh

Swanmostly inland floodingHigh

Starrmostly inland floodingModerate

Knoxmostly inland floodingModerate

Waterloomostly 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.