Natural hazards · Burket

Burket, IN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Burket?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Burket to be higher than in 15% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding36%Tornadoes23%Cold waves20%Strong wind9%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Burket faces

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 15% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% 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 Burket flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Burket 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 Burket

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BurketDeclared 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. Burket 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 Burket’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Burket. 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.