Natural hazards · Lenox

Lenox, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lenox comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lenox?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lenox to be higher than in 16% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding60%Tornadoes17%Strong wind8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Lenox faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 77 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 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 Lenox flood?

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

3paid claims since 2003

$36Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ashtabula County.

Disasters that hit Lenox

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LenoxDeclared for Ashtabula County only

Ashtabula County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Lenox

Lenox and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Morganmostly inland floodingLow

Dorsetmostly inland floodingVery low

Cherry Valleymostly inland floodingVery low

Lenoxmostly inland floodingVery low

New Lymemostly inland floodingVery low

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. Lenox covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lenox’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Lenox. 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 Lenox total about $328K 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.