Natural hazards · Portage Lakes

Portage Lakes, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Portage Lakes comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Portage Lakes?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Portage Lakes to be higher than in 9% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Hail14%Tornadoes8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Portage Lakes faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 14% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Portage Lakes flood?

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

5paid claims since 1983

$22Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Erin: 1 claim, $3K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Summit County.

Disasters that hit Portage Lakes

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Portage LakesDeclared for Summit County only

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

Around Portage Lakes

Portage Lakes and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Akronmostly inland floodingVery low

Portage Lakesmostly inland floodingVery low

Coventrymostly inland floodingVery low

Greenmostly 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. Portage Lakes covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Portage Lakes’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Portage Lakes. 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 Portage Lakes total about $939K 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.