Natural hazards · Gregg

Gregg, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Gregg comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1993. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Gregg?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Gregg to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding51%Tornadoes16%Cold waves8%Strong wind7%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Gregg faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 26 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% 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 Gregg flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Gregg, from FEMA’s records.

7paid claims since 1993

$287Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

Biggest named events

Storm: 2 claims, $118K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Morgan County.

Disasters that hit Gregg

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into GreggDeclared for Morgan County only

2014

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$5K to the Township of Gregg for repairs

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

Around Gregg

Gregg and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingHigh

Ashlandmostly inland floodingHigh

Claymostly inland floodingHigh

Monroemostly inland floodingModerate

Greggmostly inland floodingLow

Adamsmostly 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. Gregg covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Gregg’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Gregg. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Gregg total about $1.3M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.