Natural hazards · Rush

Rush, OH natural hazards

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

36
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rush to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding62%Tornadoes12%Cold waves8%Everything else18%
By hazard

What Rush faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 39 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Rush isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Champaign County.
Disasters that hit Rush

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RushDeclared for Champaign County only
Champaign County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.
Around Rush

Rush and the towns around it

Wayne: Low, mostly inland floodingAllen: Very low, mostly inland floodingUnion: High, mostly inland floodingGoshen: Low, mostly inland floodingUnion: Low, mostly inland floodingZane: Very low, mostly inland floodingLiberty: Very low, mostly inland floodingParis: Low, mostly inland floodingDarby: Moderate, mostly inland floodingPike: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMarysville: Low, mostly inland floodingPleasant: Very low, mostly inland floodingSomerford: Moderate, mostly inland floodingRush: Low, mostly inland flooding RushWayneAllenUnionGoshen
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Unionmostly inland floodingHigh
Rushmostly inland floodingLow
Goshenmostly inland floodingLow
Waynemostly inland floodingLow
Allenmostly 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 covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rush’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Rush. 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 total about $755K 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.

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