Natural hazards · Damascus

Damascus, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Damascus?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Damascus to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Tornadoes12%Cold waves5%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Damascus faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Damascus flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Henry County.

Disasters that hit Damascus

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DamascusDeclared for Henry County only

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

Around Damascus

Damascus and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Washingtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Damascusmostly inland floodingHigh

Richfieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Harrisonmostly inland floodingModerate

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