Natural hazards · Mount Orab

Mount Orab, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Orab comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mount Orab?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mount Orab to be higher than in 21% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes10%Strong wind9%Cold waves5%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Mount Orab faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 96 years in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Orab flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Brown County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

4storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Mount Orab

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mount OrabDeclared for Brown County only

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$38K to the Village of Mount Orab for repairs

2008

Record Snow and Near Record Snow

$19K to the Village of Mount Orab for repairs

2004

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

$7K to the Village of Mount Orab for repairs

Brown County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Mount Orab

Mount Orab and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Pikemostly inland floodingLow

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