Natural hazards · Seal

Seal, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Seal comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 40 claims here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Seal?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Seal to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding82%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Seal faces

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

Inland flooding

82% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Seal flood?

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

40paid claims since 1997

$693Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

Biggest named events

March storm: 2 claims, $23K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Seal 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 Seal

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SealDeclared for Pike County only

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

Around Seal

Seal and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sealmostly inland floodingHigh

Newtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Piketonmostly inland floodingHigh

Pee Peemostly inland floodingLow

Jacksonmostly inland floodingLow

Sciotomostly inland floodingVery low

Beavermostly 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. Seal covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Seal’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Seal. 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 Seal total about $2.6M 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.