Natural hazards · St. Johns

St. Johns, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in St. Johns comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is St. Johns?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in St. Johns to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes13%Earthquakes10%Cold waves5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What St. Johns faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Earthquakes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 St. Johns flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Auglaize County.

Disasters that hit St. Johns

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in St. Johns itself: aid to households, or repair grants to St. Johns.

Brought FEMA money into St. JohnsDeclared for Auglaize County only

2024

Tornadoes

1 household applied for aid

2004

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

8 households applied for aid $3K aid approved

Auglaize County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

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. St. Johns 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 St. Johns’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to St. Johns. 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.

St. Johns, OH natural hazards

How exposed is St. Johns?

What St. Johns faces

Inland flooding

Tornadoes

Earthquakes

Cold waves

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does St. Johns flood?

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Tornadoes

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

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