Natural hazards · Suffield

Suffield, OH natural hazards

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

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Suffield to be higher than in 5% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes12%Hail8%Strong wind6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Suffield 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

Well below average · higher than 11% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

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

Hail

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Suffield flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Portage County.

Disasters that hit Suffield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SuffieldDeclared for Portage County only

Portage County has had 8 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. Suffield covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Suffield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Suffield. 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 Suffield total about $479K 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.