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 moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 8 claims here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Salt Creek?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Salt Creek to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding77%Tornadoes5%Everything else18%

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

77% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 29 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Salt Creek flood?

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

8paid claims since 1983

$78Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

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: Hocking County.

Disasters that hit Salt Creek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Salt CreekDeclared for Hocking County only

Hocking County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Salt Creek

Salt Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Eaglemostly inland floodingHigh

Jacksonmostly inland floodingHigh

Bentonmostly inland floodingModerate

Salt Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Perrymostly inland floodingModerate

Colerainmostly 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 covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Salt 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 Salt 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 Salt Creek total about $1.4M 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.