Natural hazards · Scioto

Scioto, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Scioto 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 Scioto?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Scioto to be higher than in 8% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding70%Tornadoes8%Heat waves6%Strong wind6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Scioto faces

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

Inland flooding

70% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 21% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Scioto flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pike County.

Disasters that hit Scioto

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SciotoDeclared for Pike County only

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

Around Scioto

Scioto and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Newtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Camp Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

Sealmostly inland floodingHigh

Valleymostly inland floodingLow

Sciotomostly inland floodingVery low

Unionmostly 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. Scioto 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 Scioto’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Scioto. 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.