Natural hazards · Paint

Paint, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Paint?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Paint to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding67%Drought8%Tornadoes6%Lightning6%Heat waves5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Paint 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

Above average · higher than 71% 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

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong wind

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 Paint flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ross County.

Disasters that hit Paint

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PaintDeclared for Ross County only

Ross County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Paint

Paint and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Paintmostly inland floodingModerate

Buckskinmostly inland floodingModerate

Paxtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Twinmostly inland floodingModerate

Paintmostly inland floodingLow

Madisonmostly 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. Paint 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 Paint’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Paint. 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.