Natural hazards · Pleasant Grove

Pleasant Grove, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes11%Hail6%Strong wind6%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Pleasant Grove faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% 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

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Pleasant Grove flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Muskingum County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant Grove

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant GroveDeclared for Muskingum County only

Muskingum County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Pleasant Grove

Pleasant Grove and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Zanesvillemostly inland floodingHigh

Waynemostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingLow

Pleasant Grovemostly 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. Pleasant Grove is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pleasant Grove’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pleasant Grove. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.