Natural hazards · Ashland

Ashland, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ashland comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Ashland?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ashland to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding60%Tornadoes13%Cold waves7%Strong wind7%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Ashland faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 18 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Ashland flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Morgan County.

Disasters that hit Ashland

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AshlandDeclared for Morgan County only

Morgan County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Ashland

Ashland and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Harrisonmostly inland floodingHigh

Ashlandmostly inland floodingHigh

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingHigh

Cloverdalemostly inland floodingModerate

Raymostly inland floodingModerate

Adamsmostly inland floodingLow

Greggmostly 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. Ashland covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Ashland’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Ashland. 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 Ashland total about $2.1M 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.