Natural hazards · Hicksville

Hicksville, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hicksville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hicksville?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hicksville to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding53%Tornadoes22%Strong wind7%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Hicksville faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 88 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Hicksville flood?

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

5paid claims since 1981

$28Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Defiance County.

Disasters that hit Hicksville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HicksvilleDeclared for Defiance County only

Defiance County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

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. Hicksville covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Hicksville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Hicksville. 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 Hicksville total about $1.2M 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.