Natural hazards · Pleasant Hills

Pleasant Hills, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant Hills?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Hills to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding46%Tornadoes26%Heat waves12%Cold waves8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Pleasant Hills faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

26% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Pleasant Hills flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hamilton County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant Hills

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant HillsDeclared for Hamilton County only

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

Around Pleasant Hills

Pleasant Hills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pleasant Hillsmostly inland floodingLow

Finneytownmostly 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. Pleasant Hills 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 Hills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pleasant Hills. 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.