Natural hazards · Abington

Abington, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Abington comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2017.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Abington?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Abington to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding64%Tornadoes20%Strong wind5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Abington faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Abington flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Abington, from FEMA’s records.

2paid claims since 2017

$41Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20172026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Wayne County.

Disasters that hit Abington

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AbingtonDeclared for Wayne County only

Wayne County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Abington

Abington and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Abingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Bostonmostly inland floodingModerate

Abingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Brownsvillemostly inland floodingModerate

Centermostly inland floodingLow

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. Abington covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Abington’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Abington. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Abington total about $1.7M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.