Natural hazards · Swanton

Swanton, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Swanton comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2008.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Swanton?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Swanton to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding52%Tornadoes21%Cold waves8%Strong wind6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Swanton faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Swanton flood?

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

2paid claims since 2008

$5Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20082026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Fulton County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Swanton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SwantonDeclared for Fulton County only

Fulton County has had 7 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

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. Swanton covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

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