Natural hazards · Stokes

Stokes, OH natural hazards

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

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Stokes to be higher than in 18% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding48%Tornadoes12%Cold waves9%Strong wind8%Earthquakes6%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Stokes faces

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

Inland flooding

48% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Stokes flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Madison County.

Disasters that hit Stokes

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into StokesDeclared for Madison County only

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

Around Stokes

Stokes and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingLow

Stokesmostly inland floodingVery low

Paintmostly inland floodingVery low

Rangemostly inland floodingVery low

Rossmostly inland floodingVery low

Madisonmostly 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. Stokes covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Stokes’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Stokes. 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 Stokes total about $486K 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.