Natural hazards · New Lyme

New Lyme, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in New Lyme comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low 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 New Lyme?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in New Lyme to be higher than in 16% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding60%Tornadoes17%Strong wind8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What New Lyme faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 77 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 New Lyme flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ashtabula County.

Disasters that hit New Lyme

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in New Lyme itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of New Lyme.

Brought FEMA money into New LymeDeclared for Ashtabula County only

2008

Record Snow and Near Record Snow

$3K to the Township of New Lyme for repairs

Ashtabula County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around New Lyme

New Lyme and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Romemostly inland floodingLow

Cherry Valleymostly inland floodingVery low

New Lymemostly inland floodingVery low

Lenoxmostly inland floodingVery low

Colebrookmostly 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. New Lyme 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 New Lyme’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of New Lyme. 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.