Natural hazards · Dublin

Dublin, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dublin?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dublin to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding65%Tornadoes14%Earthquakes8%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Dublin faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Dublin flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mercer County.

Disasters that hit Dublin

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DublinDeclared for Mercer County only

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

Around Dublin

Dublin and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Dublinmostly inland floodingModerate

Unionmostly inland floodingModerate

Black Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Libertymostly inland floodingLow

Hopewellmostly 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. Dublin covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dublin’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Dublin. 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 Dublin total about $1.6M 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.