Natural hazards · Lee

Lee, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lee comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2004.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lee?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lee to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Lightning5%Everything else24%

By hazard

What Lee faces

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

Inland flooding

71% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lightning

5% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDrought

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 Lee flood?

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

2paid claims since 2004

$228Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20042026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $7K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Lee 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 Lee

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LeeDeclared for Carroll County only

Carroll County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Lee

Lee and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Springfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Leemostly inland floodingLow

Loudonmostly inland floodingLow

Foxmostly inland floodingLow

Unionmostly inland floodingVery low

Washingtonmostly 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. Lee covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lee’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Lee. 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 Lee total about $702K 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.