Natural hazards · Millersburg

Millersburg, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Millersburg comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1979. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Millersburg?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Millersburg to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding66%Tornadoes10%Hail7%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Millersburg faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 100 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Millersburg flood?

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

8paid claims since 1979

$51Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19792026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Holmes County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Millersburg

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MillersburgDeclared for Holmes County only

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$13K to the Village of Millersburg for repairs

2004

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

130 households applied for aid $94K aid approved $61K to the Village of Millersburg for repairs

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

7 households applied for aid $5K aid approved $10K to the Village of Millersburg for repairs

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

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. Millersburg 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 Millersburg’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Millersburg. 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.