Natural hazards · Lake Mohawk

Lake Mohawk, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lake Mohawk comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 18 claims here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lake Mohawk?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lake Mohawk to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding80%Tornadoes6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Lake Mohawk faces

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

Inland flooding

80% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 67 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Lake Mohawk flood?

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

18paid claims since 2003

$223Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carroll County.

Disasters that hit Lake Mohawk

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Lake MohawkDeclared for Carroll County only

Carroll County has had 8 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. Lake Mohawk covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lake Mohawk’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Lake Mohawk. 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 Lake Mohawk total about $1.6M 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.