Natural hazards · Minster

Minster, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Minster comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Minster?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Minster to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding51%Tornadoes16%Earthquakes16%Hail5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Minster faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 28% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 71 years in the area

Earthquakes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Minster flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Auglaize County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Minster

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MinsterDeclared for Auglaize County only

2024

Tornadoes

2 households applied for aid

2012

Severe Storms and Straight-Line Winds

$16K to the Village of Minster for repairs

2004

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

46 households applied for aid $25K aid approved $94K to the Village of Minster for repairs

2003

Severe Storms and Flooding

11 households applied for aid $23K aid approved

Auglaize County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

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

Minster, OH natural hazards

How exposed is Minster?

What Minster faces

Inland flooding

Tornadoes

Earthquakes

Hail

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Minster flood?

What’s been done with FEMA grants

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Tornadoes

Severe Storms and Straight-Line Winds

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

Severe Storms and Flooding

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