Natural hazards · Pottery Addition

Pottery Addition, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pottery Addition 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 Pottery Addition?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pottery Addition to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Tornadoes7%Strong wind5%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Pottery Addition faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 81 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Pottery Addition flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson County.

Disasters that hit Pottery Addition

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pottery AdditionDeclared for Jefferson County only

Jefferson County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Pottery Addition

Pottery Addition and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Weirtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Island Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Pottery Additionmostly inland floodingVery low

Steubenvillemostly 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. Pottery Addition 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 Pottery Addition’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pottery Addition. 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.