Natural hazards · Riverlea

Riverlea, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Riverlea comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Riverlea?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Riverlea to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Cold waves9%Tornadoes8%Heat waves5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Riverlea faces

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

Inland flooding

71% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Riverlea flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Franklin County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Riverlea

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RiverleaDeclared for Franklin County only

Franklin County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Riverlea

Riverlea and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Riverleamostly inland floodingModerate

Sharonmostly inland floodingVery low

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

Riverlea, OH natural hazards

How exposed is Riverlea?

What Riverlea faces

Inland flooding

Cold waves

Tornadoes

Heat waves

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Riverlea flood?

What’s been done with FEMA grants

Federal disasters declared here

Riverlea and the towns around it

How to read this page

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