Natural hazards · Pittsfield

Pittsfield, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pittsfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pittsfield?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pittsfield to be higher than in 13% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding67%Tornadoes12%Cold waves6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Pittsfield 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 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 53 years in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Pittsfield flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Pittsfield.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lorain County.

Disasters that hit Pittsfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PittsfieldDeclared for Lorain County only

Lorain County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Pittsfield

Pittsfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

LaGrangemostly inland floodingVery low

Pittsfieldmostly inland floodingVery low

Camdenmostly inland floodingVery low

New Russiamostly inland floodingVery low

Wellingtonmostly inland floodingVery low

Oberlinmostly 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. Pittsfield covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pittsfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pittsfield. 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 Pittsfield total about $914K 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.