Natural hazards · Cass

Cass, IN natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding64%Tornadoes9%Earthquakes8%Strong wind6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Cass faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Cass flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Cass 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 Cass

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CassDeclared for Greene County only

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

Around Cass

Cass and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cassmostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Taylormostly inland floodingModerate

Elmoremostly inland floodingLow

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