Natural hazards · Orange

Orange, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Orange comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1988.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Orange?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Orange to be higher than in 15% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding67%Drought8%Tornadoes5%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Orange faces

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

Inland flooding

67% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

8% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 33 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Orange flood?

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

1paid claims since 1988

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19882026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carroll County.

Disasters that hit Orange

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into OrangeDeclared for Carroll County only

Carroll County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Orange

Orange and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Unionmostly inland floodingModerate

Monroemostly inland floodingLow

Orangemostly inland floodingVery low

Perrymostly inland floodingVery low

Sherrodsvillemostly inland floodingVery low

Unionmostly 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. Orange covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Orange’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Orange. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Orange total about $669K a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.