Natural hazards · Champion Heights

Champion Heights, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Champion Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 2002.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Champion Heights?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Champion Heights to be higher than in 11% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding61%Tornadoes16%Strong wind8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Champion Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Champion Heights flood?

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

5paid claims since 2002

$27Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20022026

Biggest named events

Late winter storms: 1 claim, $5K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Trumbull County.

Disasters that hit Champion Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Champion HeightsDeclared for Trumbull County only

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

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. Champion Heights covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Champion Heights’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Champion Heights. 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 Champion Heights total about $1.0M 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.