Natural hazards · Barbee

Barbee, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Barbee 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 Barbee?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Barbee to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes19%Cold waves18%Strong wind8%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Barbee faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

18% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% 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 Barbee flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kosciusko County.

Disasters that hit Barbee

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BarbeeDeclared for Kosciusko County only

Kosciusko County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter 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. Barbee 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 Barbee’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Barbee. 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.