Natural hazards · Salt Creek

Salt Creek, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Salt Creek 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 Salt Creek?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Salt Creek to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Tornadoes12%Hail7%Strong wind5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Salt Creek 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

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 44 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Salt Creek flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Salt 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: Wayne County.

Disasters that hit Salt Creek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Salt CreekDeclared for Wayne County only

Wayne County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Salt Creek

Salt Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

East Unionmostly inland floodingLow

Salt Creekmostly inland floodingVery low

Paintmostly inland floodingVery low

Fredericksburgmostly inland floodingVery low

Franklinmostly inland floodingVery low

Salt Creekmostly 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. Salt Creek 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 Salt Creek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Salt Creek. 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.