Natural hazards · Beech Creek

Beech Creek, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Beech Creek comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Beech Creek?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Beech Creek to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding51%Tornadoes20%Strong wind11%Heat waves5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Beech Creek faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 21 years in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Beech Creek flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Greene County.

Disasters that hit Beech Creek

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Beech Creek itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Beech Creek.

Brought FEMA money into Beech CreekDeclared for Greene County only

2008

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

$4K to the Township of Beech Creek for repairs

Greene County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Beech Creek

Beech Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Highlandmostly inland floodingHigh

Centermostly inland floodingModerate

Claymostly inland floodingModerate

Beech Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Solsberrymostly inland floodingModerate

Van Burenmostly 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. Beech Creek covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Beech Creek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Beech Creek. 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 Beech Creek total about $1.3M 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.