Natural hazards · Pleasant Hill

Pleasant Hill, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant Hill comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant Hill?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Hill to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding58%Tornadoes16%Earthquakes7%Cold waves6%Strong wind5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Pleasant Hill faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 34 years in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightning

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 Pleasant Hill flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Miami County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant Hill

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant HillDeclared for Miami County only

2019

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslide

1 household applied for aid

2012

Severe Storms and Straight-Line Winds

$4K to the Village of Pleasant Hill for repairs

2008

Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike

$5K to the Village of Pleasant Hill for repairs

2004

Snow

$4K to the Village of Pleasant Hill for repairs

Miami County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

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 Hill 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 Hill’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Pleasant Hill. 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.