Natural hazards · Pleasant Plain

Pleasant Plain, IA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant Plain 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 Pleasant Plain?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Plain to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding29%Drought19%Heat waves13%Tornadoes12%Strong wind8%Hail7%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Pleasant Plain faces

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

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

19% of expected damage

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Heat waves

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Pleasant Plain flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant Plain

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant PlainDeclared for Jefferson County only

Jefferson County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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. Pleasant Plain 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 Pleasant Plain’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Pleasant Plain. 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.