Natural hazards · Dent

Dent, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dent comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dent?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dent to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding55%Tornadoes23%Heat waves10%Cold waves7%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Dent faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Dent flood?

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

8paid claims since 2003

$249Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hamilton County.

Disasters that hit Dent

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DentDeclared for Hamilton County only

Hamilton County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Dent

Dent and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Grandviewmostly inland floodingHigh

Taylor Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

Dentmostly inland floodingModerate

Miamimostly inland floodingModerate

Colerainmostly inland floodingLow

Greenmostly inland floodingLow

Mackmostly inland floodingLow

Monfort Heightsmostly inland floodingVery low

Bridgetownmostly 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. Dent covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dent’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dent. 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 Dent total about $4.3M 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.