Natural hazards · Milton

Milton, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Milton comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 16 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Milton?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Milton to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding73%Heat waves9%Tornadoes6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Milton faces

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

Inland flooding

73% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Milton flood?

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

16paid claims since 1979

$302Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $3K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jackson County.

Disasters that hit Milton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MiltonDeclared for Jackson County only

Jackson County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Milton

Milton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wilkesvillemostly inland floodingModerate

Coalmostly inland floodingModerate

Clintonmostly inland floodingLow

Lickmostly inland floodingLow

Miltonmostly inland floodingLow

Wellstonmostly inland floodingLow

Bloomfieldmostly 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. Milton covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Milton’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Milton. 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 Milton total about $1.2M 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.