Natural hazards · Hanging Rock

Hanging Rock, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hanging Rock comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 11 claims here since 1978. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hanging Rock?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding75%Heat waves11%Tornadoes5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Hanging Rock faces

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

Inland flooding

75% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 61 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Hanging Rock flood?

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

11paid claims since 1978

$79Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 6 claims, $20K

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. Hanging Rock isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Lawrence County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone homes bought out and moved

Disasters that hit Hanging Rock

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Hanging RockDeclared for Lawrence County only

2018

Severe Storms, Landslides, and Mudslides

$10K to the Village of Hanging Rock for repairs

2011

Severe Storms and Flooding

$20K to the Village of Hanging Rock for repairs

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

Around Hanging Rock

Hanging Rock and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Irontonmostly inland floodingVery high

Hanging Rockmostly inland floodingModerate

Hamiltonmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Hanging Rock is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Hanging Rock’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Hanging Rock. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.