Natural hazards · Perry Heights

Perry Heights, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Perry Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Perry Heights?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Perry Heights to be higher than in 5% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding54%Tornadoes11%Cold waves10%Hail10%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Perry Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 11% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Perry Heights flood?

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

10paid claims since 1981

$91Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stark County.

Disasters that hit Perry Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Perry HeightsDeclared for Stark County only

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

Around Perry Heights

Perry Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Massillonmostly inland floodingLow

Perrymostly inland floodingVery low

Perry 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. Perry Heights covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Perry Heights’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Perry Heights. 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 Perry Heights total about $1.4M 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.