Natural hazards · Forest Park

Forest Park, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Forest Park comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1981. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Forest Park?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Forest Park to be higher than in 8% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes34%Inland flooding31%Heat waves16%Cold waves11%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Forest Park faces

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

Tornadoes

34% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 9% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% 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 windLightningDrought

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 Forest Park flood?

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

2paid claims since 1981

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Forest Park 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 Forest Park

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Forest Park itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Forest Park.

Brought FEMA money into Forest ParkDeclared for Hamilton County only

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$179K to the City of Forest Park for repairs

2004

Snow

$23K to the City of Forest Park for repairs

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

Around Forest Park

Forest Park and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fairfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Colerainmostly inland floodingLow

New Burlingtonmostly inland floodingLow

Springfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Pleasant Runmostly inland floodingVery low

Greenhillsmostly inland floodingVery low

Pleasant Run Farmmostly tornadoesVery low

Forest Parkmostly tornadoesVery low

Springdalemostly 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. Forest Park covers 5 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Forest Park’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Forest Park. 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 Forest Park total about $4.1M 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.