Natural hazards · Maple Heights

Maple Heights, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Maple Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2004. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Maple Heights?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Maple Heights to be higher than in 10% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding50%Cold waves25%Tornadoes15%Heat waves6%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Maple Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

25% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Maple Heights flood?

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

1paid claims since 2004

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20042026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cuyahoga County.

Disasters that hit Maple Heights

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Maple Heights itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Maple Heights.

Brought FEMA money into Maple HeightsDeclared for Cuyahoga County only

2012

Severe Storms and Flooding Due to the Remnants of Hurricane Sandy

$24K to the City of Maple Heights for repairs

2006

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight Line Winds, and Flooding

208 households applied for aid $88K aid approved

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

401 households applied for aid $132K aid approved $12K to the City of Maple Heights for repairs

2003

Tornadoes, Flooding, Severe Storms, and High Winds

1,591 households applied for aid $1.7M aid approved

Cuyahoga County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Maple Heights

Maple Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Maple Heightsmostly inland floodingVery low

Garfield Heightsmostly inland floodingVery low

Bedfordmostly inland floodingVery low

Bedford Heightsmostly inland floodingVery low

Walton Hillsmostly 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. Maple Heights covers 7 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Maple Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Maple Heights. 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 Maple Heights total about $3.7M 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.