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 low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Paint?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Paint to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding61%Tornadoes10%Drought10%Everything else19%

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

61% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Drought

10% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year 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 Paint flood?

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

2paid claims since 1979

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 1 claim, $124

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: Fayette County.

Disasters that hit Paint

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PaintDeclared for Fayette County only

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

Around Paint

Paint and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingLow

Paintmostly inland floodingLow

Madisonmostly inland floodingLow

Marionmostly inland floodingLow

Unionmostly inland floodingLow

Rangemostly 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 covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Paint’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); 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.

FEMA’s expected losses across Paint total about $1.7M 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.