Natural hazards · Emison

Emison, IN natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Emison to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding41%Earthquakes21%Drought13%Tornadoes9%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Emison faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Drought

13% of expected damage

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Emison flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Knox County.

Disasters that hit Emison

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into EmisonDeclared for Knox County only

Knox County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Emison 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 Emison’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Emison. 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.