Natural hazards · Four Bridges

Four Bridges, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Four Bridges?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Four Bridges to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding48%Tornadoes24%Cold waves16%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Four Bridges faces

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

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Four Bridges flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Butler County.

Disasters that hit Four Bridges

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Four BridgesDeclared for Butler County only

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

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. Four Bridges covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Four Bridges’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Four Bridges. 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 Four Bridges total about $891K 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.