Natural hazards · Mount Hope

Mount Hope, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Hope comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mount Hope?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mount Hope to be higher than in 4% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding55%Tornadoes14%Hail10%Strong wind5%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Mount Hope faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 6% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 83 years in the area

Hail

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 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 Hope flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Holmes County.

Disasters that hit Mount Hope

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mount HopeDeclared for Holmes County only

Holmes County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Mount Hope

Mount Hope and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Salt Creekmostly inland floodingVery low

Paintmostly inland floodingVery low

Mount Hopemostly 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. Mount Hope 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 Hope’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mount Hope. 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.