Natural hazards · Creston

Creston, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Creston 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 Creston?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Creston to be higher than in 17% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding58%Tornadoes12%Hail6%Strong wind6%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Creston 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

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 99 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Creston flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wayne County.

Disasters that hit Creston

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CrestonDeclared for Wayne County only

Wayne County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Creston

Creston and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Crestonmostly inland floodingVery low

Westfieldmostly 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. Creston 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 Creston’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Creston. 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.