Natural hazards · Claibourne

Claibourne, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Claibourne 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 Claibourne?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Claibourne to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Tornadoes10%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Claibourne faces

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

Inland flooding

71% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 21 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Claibourne flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Union County.

Disasters that hit Claibourne

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClaibourneDeclared for Union County only

Union County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Claibourne

Claibourne and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Prospectmostly inland floodingHigh

Claibournemostly inland floodingModerate

Thompsonmostly inland floodingModerate

Yorkmostly inland floodingModerate

Jacksonmostly inland floodingModerate

Leesburgmostly inland floodingModerate

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