Natural hazards · Paris

Paris, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Paris comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2011.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Paris?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Paris to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding67%Tornadoes11%Hail6%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Paris 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 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 95 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Paris flood?

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

1paid claims since 2011

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20112026

Biggest named events

Late winter storms: 1 claim, $2K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Portage County.

Disasters that hit Paris

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ParisDeclared for Portage County only

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

Around Paris

Paris and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Newtonmostly inland floodingLow

Windhammostly inland floodingLow

Parismostly inland floodingVery low

Charlestownmostly inland floodingVery low

Palmyramostly 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. Paris covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Paris’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Paris. 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 Paris total about $308K 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.