Natural hazards · Edgewood

Edgewood, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Edgewood comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Edgewood?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Edgewood to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding56%Tornadoes16%Cold waves10%Strong wind5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Edgewood faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% 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 Edgewood flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Madison County.

Disasters that hit Edgewood

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Edgewood itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Edgewood.

Brought FEMA money into EdgewoodDeclared for Madison County only

2014

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$4K to the Town of Edgewood for repairs

2005

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

$2K to the Town of Edgewood for repairs

2004

Snow

$983 to the Town of Edgewood for repairs

2002

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

$23K to the Town of Edgewood for repairs

1999

In-Winter Storm 12/23/98

$2K to the Town of Edgewood for repairs

Madison County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Edgewood

Edgewood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Andersonmostly inland floodingLow

Edgewoodmostly 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. Edgewood 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 Edgewood’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Edgewood. 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.