Natural hazards · Chickasaw

Chickasaw, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Chickasaw?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Chickasaw to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding42%Tornadoes27%Earthquakes14%Strong wind6%Hail5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Chickasaw faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

27% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Earthquakes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightning

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 Chickasaw flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mercer County.

Disasters that hit Chickasaw

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ChickasawDeclared for Mercer County only

Mercer County has had 12 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. Chickasaw 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 Chickasaw’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Chickasaw. 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.