Natural hazards · Pickerington

Pickerington, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pickerington comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 12 claims here since 1982. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pickerington?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pickerington to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Tornadoes9%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Pickerington faces

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

Inland flooding

71% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Pickerington flood?

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

12paid claims since 1982

$101Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19822026

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. Pickerington isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Fairfield County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Pickerington

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into PickeringtonDeclared for Fairfield County only

2012

Severe Storms and Straight-Line Winds

$21K to the City of Pickerington for repairs

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$33K to the City of Pickerington for repairs

2008

Record Snow and Near Record Snow

$25K to the City of Pickerington for repairs

2004

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

64 households applied for aid $40K aid approved $29K to the City of Pickerington for repairs

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

Around Pickerington

Pickerington and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Madisonmostly inland floodingModerate

Pickeringtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Violetmostly inland floodingLow

Columbusmostly inland floodingLow

Reynoldsburgmostly inland floodingLow

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. Pickerington covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pickerington’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Pickerington. 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 Pickerington total about $4.4M 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.