Natural hazards · Salem Heights

Salem Heights, OH natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Salem Heights?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Salem Heights to be higher than in 4% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding63%Tornadoes15%Hail7%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Salem Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 11% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Salem Heights flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Columbiana County.

Disasters that hit Salem Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Salem HeightsDeclared for Columbiana County only

Columbiana County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Salem Heights

Salem Heights and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Salem Heightsmostly inland floodingVery low

Perrymostly inland floodingVery low

Salemmostly 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. Salem Heights 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 Salem Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Salem Heights. 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.