Natural hazards · Nashville

Nashville, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Nashville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Nashville?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Nashville to be higher than in 45% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding74%Tornadoes8%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Nashville faces

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

Inland flooding

74% 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 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 22 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Nashville flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Nashville 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 Nashville

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into NashvilleDeclared for Holmes County only

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$3K to the Village of Nashville for repairs

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

Around Nashville

Nashville and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Nashvillemostly inland floodingModerate

Knoxmostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

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