Natural hazards · Fishersburg

Fishersburg, IN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fishersburg?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fishersburg to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding58%Tornadoes14%Cold waves8%Earthquakes7%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Fishersburg faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 45 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Fishersburg flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Fishersburg 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 Fishersburg

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FishersburgDeclared for Madison County only

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

Around Fishersburg

Fishersburg and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Waynemostly inland floodingModerate

Fishersburgmostly inland floodingLow

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