Natural hazards · Hanging Grove

Hanging Grove, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hanging Grove comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1982.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hanging Grove?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hanging Grove to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding59%Cold waves16%Tornadoes10%Strong wind5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Hanging Grove 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

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Hanging Grove flood?

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

6paid claims since 1982

$51Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19822026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jasper County.

Disasters that hit Hanging Grove

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Hanging GroveDeclared for Jasper County only

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

Around Hanging Grove

Hanging Grove and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hanging Grovemostly inland floodingModerate

Marionmostly inland floodingModerate

Milroymostly inland floodingModerate

Mononmostly inland floodingModerate

Salemmostly inland floodingLow

Barkleymostly inland floodingLow

Gillammostly 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. Hanging Grove covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Hanging Grove’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Hanging Grove. 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 Hanging Grove total about $1.8M 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.