Natural hazards · Clay

Clay, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clay?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clay to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Heat waves10%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Clay faces

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

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Clay flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Gallia County.

Disasters that hit Clay

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClayDeclared for Gallia County only

Gallia County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Clay

Clay and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Claymostly inland floodingVery high

Harrisonmostly inland floodingVery high

Ohiomostly inland floodingVery high

Gallipolis Ferrymostly inland floodingHigh

Gallipolismostly inland floodingModerate

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