Natural hazards · Letart

Letart, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Letart comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Letart?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Letart to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding81%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Letart faces

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

Inland flooding

81% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Letart flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Meigs County.

Disasters that hit Letart

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Letart itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Letart.

Brought FEMA money into LetartDeclared for Meigs County only

2018

Severe Storms, Landslides, and Mudslides

$172K to the Township of Letart for repairs

2003

Severe Winter Storm and Record/Near Record Snow

$30K to the Township of Letart for repairs

Meigs County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Letart

Letart and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Suttonmostly inland floodingHigh

Letartmostly inland floodingModerate

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