Natural hazards · Valleyview

Valleyview, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Valleyview comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Valleyview?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Valleyview to be higher than in 15% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding64%Cold waves11%Tornadoes10%Heat waves7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Valleyview faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Valleyview flood?

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

4paid claims since 1979

$19Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Franklin County.

Disasters that hit Valleyview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ValleyviewDeclared for Franklin County only

Franklin County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Valleyview

Valleyview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Franklinmostly inland floodingLow

Valleyviewmostly 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. Valleyview 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 Valleyview’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Valleyview. 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.

Valleyview, OH natural hazards

How exposed is Valleyview?

What Valleyview faces

Inland flooding

Cold waves

Tornadoes

Heat waves

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Valleyview flood?

Federal disasters declared here

Valleyview and the towns around it

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