Natural hazards · Brushcreek

Brushcreek, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brushcreek?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brushcreek to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Tornadoes9%Everything else24%

By hazard

What Brushcreek faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 23 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Brushcreek flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Highland County.

Disasters that hit Brushcreek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrushcreekDeclared for Highland County only

Highland County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Brushcreek

Brushcreek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Perrymostly inland floodingModerate

Mifflinmostly inland floodingModerate

Brushcreekmostly inland floodingModerate

Jacksonmostly inland floodingModerate

Paintmostly inland floodingLow

Marshallmostly inland floodingLow

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