Natural hazards · Jennings

Jennings, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Jennings?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Jennings to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Tornadoes10%Strong wind5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Jennings faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 20 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 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 Jennings flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Putnam County.

Disasters that hit Jennings

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into JenningsDeclared for Putnam County only

Putnam County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Jennings

Jennings and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sugar Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

Jenningsmostly inland floodingHigh

Montereymostly inland floodingHigh

Jacksonmostly inland floodingHigh

Delphosmostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

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