Natural hazards · Lake Lorelei

Lake Lorelei, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lake Lorelei 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 Lake Lorelei?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lake Lorelei to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Tornadoes10%Strong wind8%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Lake Lorelei faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 33 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Lake Lorelei flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Brown County.

Disasters that hit Lake Lorelei

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Lake LoreleiDeclared for Brown County only

Brown County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Lake Lorelei 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 Lake Lorelei’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Lake Lorelei. 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.