Natural hazards · Deercreek

Deercreek, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Deercreek comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 15 claims here since 1990.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Deercreek?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Deercreek to be higher than in 29% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding57%Drought18%Tornadoes7%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Deercreek faces

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

Inland flooding

57% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

18% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Deercreek flood?

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

15paid claims since 1990

$155Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19902026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pickaway County.

Disasters that hit Deercreek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DeercreekDeclared for Pickaway County only

Pickaway County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Deercreek

Deercreek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Monroemostly inland floodingLow

Jacksonmostly inland floodingLow

Deerfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Deercreekmostly inland floodingLow

Waynemostly inland floodingLow

Perrymostly 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. Deercreek covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Deercreek’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Deercreek. 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 Deercreek total about $1.3M 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.