Natural hazards · Silvercreek

Silvercreek, OH natural hazards

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

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding50%Cold waves22%Tornadoes10%Earthquakes6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Silvercreek faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 57 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Silvercreek flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Greene County.

Disasters that hit Silvercreek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SilvercreekDeclared for Greene County only

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

Around Silvercreek

Silvercreek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingLow

Silvercreekmostly inland floodingVery low

New Jaspermostly inland floodingVery low

Shawnee Hillsmostly inland floodingVery low

Rossmostly inland floodingVery low

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingVery low

Caesarscreekmostly 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. Silvercreek covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Silvercreek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Silvercreek. 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 Silvercreek 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.