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Natural hazards · Wills

Wills, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wills comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Wills?

10
Very low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wills to be higher than in 10% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding68%Tornadoes7%Everything else25%
By hazard

What Wills faces

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

Inland flooding

68% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 49 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Wills flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Wills isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Guernsey County.
Disasters that hit Wills

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Wills itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Wills.

Brought FEMA money into WillsDeclared for Guernsey County only
2012

Severe Storms and Straight-Line Winds

$44K to the Township of Wills for repairs
2004

Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides

$44K to the Township of Wills for repairs
2004

Severe Storms and Flooding

$35K to the Township of Wills for repairs
2004

Severe Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, and Landslides

$17K to the Township of Wills for repairs
Guernsey County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Wills

Wills and the towns around it

Center: Very low, mostly inland floodingRichland: Low, mostly inland floodingOld Washington: Very low, mostly inland floodingMillwood: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMadison: Moderate, mostly inland floodingOxford: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCambridge: Low, mostly inland floodingJackson: Very low, mostly inland floodingJefferson: Low, mostly inland floodingWayne: Very low, mostly inland floodingValley: Very low, mostly inland floodingBeaver: Very low, mostly inland floodingWarren: Very low, mostly inland floodingWashington: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLondonderry: Moderate, mostly inland floodingKirkwood: Very low, mostly inland floodingWills: Very low, mostly inland flooding WillsCenterRichlandOld WashingtonMillwoodMadisonOxford
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Millwoodmostly inland floodingModerate
Madisonmostly inland floodingModerate
Oxfordmostly inland floodingModerate
Richlandmostly inland floodingLow
Willsmostly inland floodingVery low
Centermostly inland floodingVery low
Old Washingtonmostly 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. Wills 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 Wills’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wills. 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.

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