Natural hazards · Sharon

Sharon, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sharon comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 61 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sharon?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding60%Cold waves13%Tornadoes11%Heat waves8%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Sharon faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Sharon flood?

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

61paid claims since 1979

$436Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 2 claims, $1K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Franklin County.

Disasters that hit Sharon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SharonDeclared for Franklin County only

Franklin County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Sharon

Sharon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Riverleamostly inland floodingModerate

Westervillemostly inland floodingLow

Columbusmostly inland floodingLow

Perrymostly inland floodingLow

Sharonmostly inland floodingVery low

Worthingtonmostly 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. Sharon covers 9 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sharon’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Sharon. 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 Sharon total about $7.7M 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.