Natural hazards · Morris

Morris, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Morris comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Morris?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Morris to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding66%Tornadoes8%Strong wind7%Cold waves6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Morris 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

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 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 Morris flood?

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

3paid claims since 1979

$12Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Knox County.

Disasters that hit Morris

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MorrisDeclared for Knox County only

Knox County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Morris

Morris and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Morrismostly inland floodingModerate

Clintonmostly inland floodingLow

Waynemostly inland floodingLow

Mount Vernonmostly inland floodingLow

Fredericktownmostly inland floodingLow

Berlinmostly inland floodingLow

Monroemostly inland floodingLow

Pikemostly 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. Morris covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Morris’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Morris. 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 Morris total about $2.5M 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.