Natural hazards · Pusheta

Pusheta, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pusheta comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1993. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pusheta?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pusheta to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes13%Earthquakes10%Cold waves5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Pusheta 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

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Earthquakes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Pusheta flood?

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

6paid claims since 1993

$334Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

Biggest named events

Late winter storms: 2 claims, $13K

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Auglaize County.

Disasters that hit Pusheta

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Pusheta itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Pusheta.

Brought FEMA money into PushetaDeclared for Auglaize County only

2004

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

$10K to the Township of Pusheta for repairs

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

Around Pusheta

Pusheta and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Duchouquetmostly inland floodingModerate

Wapakonetamostly inland floodingModerate

Pushetamostly inland floodingLow

Washingtonmostly inland floodingLow

Claymostly inland floodingLow

Dinsmoremostly 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. Pusheta covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pusheta’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pusheta. 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 Pusheta total about $1.2M 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.