Natural hazards · Mount Gilead

Mount Gilead, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Gilead comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1998. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mount Gilead?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding66%Tornadoes11%Strong wind6%Hail5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Mount Gilead 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 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 45 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

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 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 Mount Gilead flood?

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

3paid claims since 1998

$73Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19982026

Biggest named events

Late winter storms: 1 claim, $39K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Morrow County.

Disasters that hit Mount Gilead

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mount GileadDeclared for Morrow County only

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$55K to the Village of Mount Gilead for repairs

2008

Record Snow and Near Record Snow

$13K to the Village of Mount Gilead for repairs

2004

Snow

$8K to the Village of Mount Gilead for repairs

Morrow County has had 13 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. Mount Gilead 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 Mount Gilead’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Mount Gilead. 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.