Natural hazards · Clearview

Clearview, WV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Clearview comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clearview?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clearview to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding89%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Clearview faces

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

Inland flooding

89% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Clearview flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ohio County.

Disasters that hit Clearview

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClearviewDeclared for Ohio County only

2010

Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorms

$2K to the Village of Clearview for repairs

Ohio County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Clearview

Clearview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wheelingmostly inland floodingVery high

Clearviewmostly inland floodingHigh

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