Natural hazards · Cuyahoga Falls

Cuyahoga Falls, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cuyahoga Falls comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 1979. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cuyahoga Falls?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cuyahoga Falls to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding65%Hail12%Tornadoes8%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Cuyahoga Falls faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Cuyahoga Falls flood?

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

10paid claims since 1979

$587Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Summit County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

5flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Cuyahoga Falls

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Cuyahoga Falls itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Cuyahoga Falls.

Brought FEMA money into Cuyahoga FallsDeclared for Summit County only

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$178K to the City of Cuyahoga Falls for repairs

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

73 households applied for aid $48K aid approved $134K to the City of Cuyahoga Falls for repairs

2003

Tornadoes, Flooding, Severe Storms, and High Winds

478 households applied for aid $572K aid approved $149K to the City of Cuyahoga Falls for repairs

Summit County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Cuyahoga Falls

Cuyahoga Falls and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Silver Lakemostly inland floodingModerate

Munroe Fallsmostly inland floodingLow

Cuyahoga Fallsmostly inland floodingLow

Akronmostly inland floodingVery low

Stowmostly inland floodingVery low

Bostonmostly inland floodingVery low

Bathmostly 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. Cuyahoga Falls covers 13 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Cuyahoga Falls’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Cuyahoga Falls. 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 Cuyahoga Falls total about $9.1M 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.