Natural hazards · Bucks

Bucks, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bucks?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bucks to be higher than in 17% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Drought6%Hail5%Everything else21%

By hazard

What Bucks 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

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

6% of expected damage

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Bucks flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tuscarawas County.

Disasters that hit Bucks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BucksDeclared for Tuscarawas County only

Tuscarawas County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Bucks

Bucks and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingModerate

Adamsmostly inland floodingModerate

Crawfordmostly inland floodingModerate

Bucksmostly inland floodingVery low

Clarkmostly inland floodingVery low

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