Natural hazards · Clinton

Clinton, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clinton?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clinton to be higher than in 12% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding42%Cold waves24%Heat waves14%Tornadoes12%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Clinton 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

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

14% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Clinton flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Franklin County.

Disasters that hit Clinton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClintonDeclared for Franklin County only

Franklin County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Clinton

Clinton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Mifflinmostly inland floodingModerate

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

Clinton, OH natural hazards

How exposed is Clinton?

What Clinton faces

Inland flooding

Cold waves

Heat waves

Tornadoes

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Clinton flood?

Federal disasters declared here

Clinton and the towns around it

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