Natural hazards · Franklin

Franklin, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Franklin?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Franklin to be higher than in 12% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding54%Tornadoes14%Hail7%Strong wind7%Cold waves6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Franklin faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 56 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Franklin flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wayne County.

Disasters that hit Franklin

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FranklinDeclared for Wayne County only

Wayne County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Franklin

Franklin and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

East Unionmostly inland floodingLow

Clintonmostly inland floodingLow

Salt Creekmostly inland floodingVery low

Fredericksburgmostly inland floodingVery low

Franklinmostly inland floodingVery low

Prairiemostly inland floodingVery low

Woostermostly inland floodingVery low

Salt Creekmostly inland floodingVery low

Woostermostly 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. Franklin covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Franklin’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Franklin. 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 Franklin total about $563K 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.