Natural hazards · Brush Creek

Brush Creek, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brush Creek comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 23 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brush Creek?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brush Creek to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding75%Heat waves12%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Brush Creek faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Brush Creek flood?

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

23paid claims since 1978

$365Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Scioto County.

Disasters that hit Brush Creek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Brush CreekDeclared for Scioto County only

Scioto County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Brush Creek

Brush Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Nilemostly inland floodingVery high

Brush Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

Rardenmostly inland floodingHigh

Morganmostly inland floodingHigh

Unionmostly inland floodingHigh

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Brush Creek covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Brush Creek’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Brush Creek. 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 Brush Creek total about $1.6M 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.