Natural hazards · Greenhills

Greenhills, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Greenhills comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 17 claims here since 1979. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Greenhills?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Greenhills to be higher than in 17% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding35%Tornadoes31%Heat waves15%Cold waves10%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Greenhills faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Heat waves

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% 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 windLightning

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 Greenhills flood?

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

17paid claims since 1979

$63Kpaid to owners

3homes flooded more than once

19792026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Greenhills 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 Greenhills

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Greenhills itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Village of Greenhills.

Brought FEMA money into GreenhillsDeclared for Hamilton County only

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$133K to the Village of Greenhills for repairs

2004

Snow

$11K to the Village of Greenhills for repairs

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

Around Greenhills

Greenhills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

New Burlingtonmostly inland floodingLow

Springfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Greenhillsmostly inland floodingVery low

Forest Parkmostly tornadoesVery 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. Greenhills covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Greenhills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Greenhills. 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 Greenhills total about $783K 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.