Natural hazards · Ripley

Ripley, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ripley 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 Ripley?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ripley to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding55%Tornadoes15%Lightning7%Strong wind7%Cold waves6%Hail5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Ripley faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 34 years in the area

Lightning

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslides

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 Ripley flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Huron County.

Disasters that hit Ripley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RipleyDeclared for Huron County only

Huron County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Ripley

Ripley and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Fairfieldmostly inland floodingLow

Ripleymostly inland floodingLow

Greenwichmostly inland floodingLow

New Havenmostly 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. Ripley covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Ripley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Ripley. 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 Ripley total about $1.4M 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.