Natural hazards · Good Hope

Good Hope, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Good Hope comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 27 claims here since 1980. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Good Hope?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Good Hope to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding79%Tornadoes6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Good Hope faces

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

Inland flooding

79% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 38 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Good Hope flood?

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

27paid claims since 1980

$271Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

Biggest named events

March storm: 1 claim, $908

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hocking County.

Disasters that hit Good Hope

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Good Hope itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Good Hope.

Brought FEMA money into Good HopeDeclared for Hocking County only

2012

Severe Storms and Straight-Line Winds

$2K to the Township of Good Hope for repairs

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$2K to the Township of Good Hope for repairs

2003

Severe Winter Storm and Record/Near Record Snow

$3K to the Township of Good Hope for repairs

Hocking County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Good Hope

Good Hope and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fallsmostly inland floodingHigh

Bernemostly inland floodingModerate

Laurelmostly inland floodingModerate

Good Hopemostly inland floodingModerate

Marionmostly inland floodingModerate

Madisonmostly 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. Good Hope covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Good Hope’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Good Hope. 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 Good Hope total about $1.9M 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.