Natural hazards · Clark

Clark, IN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Clark?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Clark to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes18%Strong wind8%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Clark faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Clark flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Perry County.

Disasters that hit Clark

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ClarkDeclared for Perry County only

Perry County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Clark

Clark and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Clarkmostly inland floodingVery high

Oilmostly inland floodingVery high

Andersonmostly inland floodingVery high

Leopoldmostly inland floodingVery high

Harrisonmostly inland floodingModerate

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingModerate

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