Natural hazards · Clark

Clark, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Clark comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clark?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clark to be higher than in 7% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding58%Tornadoes13%Hail9%Everything else21%

By hazard

What Clark faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 11% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 56 years in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Clark flood?

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

3paid claims since 1979

$44Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Holmes County.

Disasters that hit Clark

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClarkDeclared for Holmes County only

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

Around Clark

Clark and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Crawfordmostly inland floodingModerate

Sugar Creekmostly inland floodingVery low

Bucksmostly inland floodingVery low

Mechanicmostly inland floodingVery low

Walnut Creekmostly inland floodingVery low

Clarkmostly inland floodingVery low

Auburnmostly inland floodingVery low

Balticmostly 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. Clark covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Clark’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Clark. 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 Clark total about $1.3M 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.