Natural hazards · Ridgeway

Ridgeway, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ridgeway comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Ridgeway?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ridgeway to be higher than in 26% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding61%Tornadoes13%Cold waves8%Hail5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Ridgeway faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hail

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

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Ridgeway flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Logan County.

Disasters that hit Ridgeway

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into RidgewayDeclared for Logan County only

2004

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

12 households applied for aid $8K aid approved

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

Around Ridgeway

Ridgeway and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Halemostly inland floodingModerate

Ridgewaymostly inland floodingLow

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