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 low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 16 claims here since 2004.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clay?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clay to be higher than in 13% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding59%Cold waves10%Tornadoes9%Earthquakes9%Everything else14%

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

59% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 81 years in the area

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Clay flood?

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

16paid claims since 2004

$374Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20042026

Biggest named events

March storm: 1 claim, $4K

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: Montgomery County.

Disasters that hit Clay

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClayDeclared for Montgomery County only

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

Around Clay

Clay and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Harrisonmostly inland floodingLow

Claytonmostly inland floodingVery low

Claymostly inland floodingVery low

Perrymostly 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. Clay covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Clay’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); 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.

FEMA’s expected losses across Clay total about $1.9M 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.