Natural hazards · Windham

Windham, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Windham comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Windham?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Windham to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Tornadoes9%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Windham faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 91 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Windham flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Windham 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 Windham

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WindhamDeclared for Portage County only

Portage County has had 8 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Windham

Windham and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Bracevillemostly inland floodingModerate

Windhammostly inland floodingLow

Parismostly inland floodingVery low

Garrettsvillemostly inland floodingVery low

Nelsonmostly inland floodingVery low

Freedommostly 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. Windham 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 Windham’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Windham. 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.