Natural hazards · Edgewood

Edgewood, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Edgewood comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Edgewood?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Edgewood to be higher than in 7% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding61%Tornadoes18%Strong wind8%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Edgewood faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 16% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

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

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Edgewood flood?

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

2paid claims since 1980

$6Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ashtabula County.

Disasters that hit Edgewood

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EdgewoodDeclared for Ashtabula County only

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

Around Edgewood

Edgewood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ashtabulamostly inland floodingVery low

Plymouthmostly inland floodingVery low

Ashtabulamostly inland floodingVery low

Kingsvillemostly inland floodingVery low

Edgewoodmostly 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. Edgewood covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

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