Natural hazards · Montpelier

Montpelier, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Montpelier comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1985.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Montpelier?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Montpelier to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes22%Strong wind10%Cold waves7%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Montpelier faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Montpelier flood?

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

1paid claims since 1985

$193paid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19852026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Williams County.

Disasters that hit Montpelier

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MontpelierDeclared for Williams County only

Williams County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Montpelier

Montpelier and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Superiormostly inland floodingModerate

Montpeliermostly inland floodingLow

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingLow

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. Montpelier covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Montpelier’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Montpelier. 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 Montpelier 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.