Natural-hazard risk by neighborhood
Which natural hazards threaten each part of Columbus most? Search your address to see your area, or click any neighborhood on the map. Switch between FEMA’s composite risk score and individual hazards — heat, tornado, river flooding, winter weather, and wind.
How to read this map
The FEMA National Risk Index scores each census tract from 0 to 100 by combining a hazard’s expected annual loss with the community’s social vulnerability and resilience. Higher means more risk. We show each neighborhood as the area-weighted average of the tracts it covers, so a neighborhood spanning several tracts blends their scores by how much land each contributes. Switch hazards with the tabs; the composite rolls all 18 hazards together.
The drawer lists each neighborhood’s composite score and, as advisory context only, its social- vulnerability score. FEMA revised the social-vulnerability methodology in the December 2025 release, so treat that number as directional rather than a precise, comparable index.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025 vintage), by census tract, intersected with Census TIGER/Line tract boundaries. Risk is relative to the nation, so even a lower-scoring Columbus neighborhood faces real hazards. See methodology for details.