Natural hazards · Rush Creek

Rush Creek, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rush Creek comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rush Creek?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rush Creek to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Tornadoes6%Drought5%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Rush Creek 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 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 44 years in the area

Drought

5% of expected damage

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Rush Creek flood?

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

4paid claims since 1979

$5Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 1 claim, $469

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fairfield County.

Disasters that hit Rush Creek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Rush CreekDeclared for Fairfield County only

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

Around Rush Creek

Rush Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Bernemostly inland floodingModerate

Marionmostly inland floodingModerate

Rush Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Richlandmostly inland floodingModerate

Jacksonmostly inland floodingLow

Pleasantmostly inland floodingVery low

Readingmostly 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. Rush Creek covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rush Creek’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Rush Creek. 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 Rush Creek total about $1.8M 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.