Natural hazards · Sandy

Sandy, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sandy comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 11 claims here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sandy?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sandy to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding79%Everything else21%

By hazard

What Sandy faces

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

Inland flooding

79% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Sandy flood?

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

11paid claims since 2003

$30Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stark County.

Disasters that hit Sandy

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SandyDeclared for Stark County only

Stark County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Sandy

Sandy and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brownmostly inland floodingHigh

Sandymostly inland floodingModerate

Pikemostly inland floodingLow

Rosemostly inland floodingLow

Osnaburgmostly 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. Sandy covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sandy’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Sandy. 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 Sandy total about $1.0M 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.