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County hazard profile

Portage, OH

Ohio · pop. 161,780 · FIPS 39133

Relatively Low
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Hail
dominant hazard
$29M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

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

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Portage $29M

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 65.08/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (65th percentile)
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Low 20.32/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally
Community resilienceRelatively High 76.21/100
national median ~50 higher than 76% of counties

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Portage

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 85 flood-insurance claims totaling $863K in Portage since 1978. The costliest year was 2013 ($438K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $1,299 paid 1979: $13,608 paid 1981: $8,431 paid 1982: $478 paid 1983: $3,982 paid 1984: $138 paid 1985: $0 paid 1989: $0 paid 1991: $0 paid 1996: $1,898 paid 1998: $15,441 paid 1999: $0 paid 2000: $10,398 paid 2002: $0 paid 2003: $45,918 paid 2004: $26,502 paid 2005: $5,638 paid 2006: $1,826 paid 2011: $29,139 paid 2012: $17,759 paid 2013: $437,514 paid 2014: $11,344 paid 2016: $0 paid 2017: $0 paid 2018: $0 paid 2019: $52,169 paid 2020: $154,747 paid 2021: $16,141 paid 2024: $8,959 paid 2013 · $438K 1978 2024
$863K
total paid
$10,157
average claim
$155K
largest single claim
27%
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 Portage, OH and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Portage 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.