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 low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clinton?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clinton to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding76%Tornadoes6%Heat waves5%Everything else13%

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

76% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 40 years in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Clinton flood?

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

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: Vinton County.

Disasters that hit Clinton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClintonDeclared for Vinton County only

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

Around Clinton

Clinton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Richlandmostly inland floodingHigh

Vintonmostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Clintonmostly inland floodingLow

Elkmostly inland floodingLow

Miltonmostly inland floodingLow

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.