Natural hazards · Dry Run

Dry Run, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dry Run comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dry Run?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dry Run to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding56%Tornadoes21%Heat waves10%Cold waves7%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Dry Run faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% 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 Dry Run flood?

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

2paid claims since 1978

$7Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 1 claim, $1K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Dry Run 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 Dry Run

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Dry RunDeclared for Hamilton County only

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

Around Dry Run

Dry Run and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Newtownmostly inland floodingLow

Turpin Hillsmostly inland floodingLow

Dry Runmostly inland floodingLow

Cherry Grovemostly inland floodingVery low

Forestvillemostly 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. Dry Run covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dry Run’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Dry Run. 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 Dry Run total about $1.4M 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.