Natural hazards · Barr

Barr, IN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Barr?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Barr to be higher than in 42% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding42%Earthquakes25%Tornadoes13%Drought6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Barr faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

25% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Drought

6% of expected damage

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Barr flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Daviess County.

Disasters that hit Barr

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BarrDeclared for Daviess County only

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

Around Barr

Barr and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Perrymostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Van Burenmostly inland floodingModerate

Bogardmostly inland floodingModerate

Barrmostly inland floodingModerate

Reevemostly inland floodingModerate

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. Barr 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 Barr’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Barr. 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.