Natural hazards · Gustavus

Gustavus, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Gustavus 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 Gustavus?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Gustavus to be higher than in 15% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding65%Tornadoes14%Strong wind7%Hail5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Gustavus faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 45 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Gustavus flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Trumbull County.

Disasters that hit Gustavus

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GustavusDeclared for Trumbull County only

Trumbull County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Gustavus

Gustavus and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kinsmanmostly inland floodingVery low

Waynemostly inland floodingVery low

Gustavusmostly inland floodingVery low

Johnstonmostly inland floodingVery low

Greenemostly 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. Gustavus covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Gustavus’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Gustavus. 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 Gustavus total about $640K 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.