Natural hazards · Rushcreek

Rushcreek, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rushcreek comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2011.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rushcreek?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rushcreek 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 Rushcreek 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 Rushcreek flood?

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

2paid claims since 2011

$68Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20112026

Biggest named events

Late winter storms: 1 claim, $51K

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Rushcreek 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 Rushcreek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RushcreekDeclared for Logan County only

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

Around Rushcreek

Rushcreek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Richlandmostly inland floodingHigh

Taylor Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

McArthurmostly inland floodingLow

Rushcreekmostly inland floodingLow

Bokescreekmostly inland floodingLow

Jeffersonmostly 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. Rushcreek covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rushcreek’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Rushcreek. 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 Rushcreek total about $1.3M 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.