Natural hazards · Deer Creek

Deer Creek, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Deer Creek 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 Deer Creek?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Deer Creek to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes11%Strong wind7%Cold waves6%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Deer Creek faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 24 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Deer Creek flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Madison County.

Disasters that hit Deer Creek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Deer CreekDeclared for Madison County only

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

Around Deer Creek

Deer Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Somerfordmostly inland floodingModerate

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingLow

Deer Creekmostly inland floodingLow

Monroemostly inland floodingLow

Londonmostly inland floodingVery low

Unionmostly 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. Deer Creek covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Deer Creek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Deer Creek. 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 Deer Creek total about $601K 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.