Natural hazards · Jasper

Jasper, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Jasper comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Jasper?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Jasper to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding66%Tornadoes11%Everything else24%

By hazard

What Jasper faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 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 Jasper flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fayette County.

Disasters that hit Jasper

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into JasperDeclared for Fayette County only

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

Around Jasper

Jasper and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Concordmostly inland floodingLow

Jaspermostly inland floodingLow

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingLow

Unionmostly inland floodingLow

Richlandmostly inland floodingLow

Wilsonmostly inland floodingLow

Jeffersonmostly 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. Jasper 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 Jasper’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Jasper. 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.