Natural hazards · Marlboro

Marlboro, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Marlboro comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Marlboro?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Marlboro to be higher than in 17% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding65%Hail9%Tornadoes8%Cold waves7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Marlboro faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 58 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Marlboro flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stark County.

Disasters that hit Marlboro

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MarlboroDeclared for Stark County only

Stark County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Marlboro

Marlboro and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Marlboromostly inland floodingVery low

Nimishillenmostly inland floodingVery low

Lexingtonmostly inland floodingVery low

Lakemostly inland floodingVery low

Randolphmostly 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. Marlboro covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Marlboro’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Marlboro. 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 Marlboro total about $909K 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.