Natural hazards · Peninsula

Peninsula, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Peninsula comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 2003. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Peninsula?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Peninsula to be higher than in 12% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding66%Hail13%Tornadoes7%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Peninsula faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 88 years 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 Peninsula flood?

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

6paid claims since 2003

$247Kpaid to owners

2homes flooded more than once

20032026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Summit County.

Disasters that hit Peninsula

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Peninsula itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Village of Peninsula.

Brought FEMA money into PeninsulaDeclared for Summit County only

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$5K to the Village of Peninsula for repairs

2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

3 households applied for aid $4K aid approved

2003

Tornadoes, Flooding, Severe Storms, and High Winds

41 households applied for aid $60K aid approved $105K to the Village of Peninsula for repairs

Summit County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Peninsula

Peninsula and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Peninsulamostly inland floodingVery low

Bostonmostly inland floodingVery low

Boston Heightsmostly 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. Peninsula covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Peninsula’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Peninsula. 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 Peninsula total about $829K 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.