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County hazard profile

Columbiana, OH

Ohio · pop. 101,872 · FIPS 39029

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hail
dominant hazard
$25M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Columbiana $25M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexRelatively Low 69.05/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (69th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 55.76/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (56th percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively High 70.52/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (71st percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Columbiana

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 112 flood-insurance claims totaling $857K in Columbiana since 1978. The costliest year was 2004 ($488K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $0 paid 1979: $150 paid 1980: $68,603 paid 1981: $1,682 paid 1985: $42,483 paid 1990: $24,838 paid 1994: $0 paid 1996: $25,975 paid 1997: $4,276 paid 1998: $82,547 paid 2000: $1,410 paid 2003: $36,123 paid 2004: $488,424 paid 2005: $1,132 paid 2008: $1,283 paid 2009: $32,447 paid 2010: $5,382 paid 2011: $4,227 paid 2012: $8,000 paid 2013: $1,854 paid 2014: $15,198 paid 2015: $3,814 paid 2022: $7,479 paid 2004 · $488K 1978 2022
$857K
total paid
$7,655
average claim
$73K
largest single claim
41%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Columbiana, OH and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Columbiana is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.