Natural hazards · Harrison

Harrison, IN natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Harrison to be higher than in 42% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding38%Earthquakes23%Drought13%Tornadoes10%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Harrison faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

23% 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

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 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 Harrison flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Harrison 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 Harrison

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HarrisonDeclared for Knox County only

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

Around Harrison

Harrison and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Madisonmostly inland floodingModerate

Claymostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Palmyramostly inland floodingModerate

Johnsonmostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Vealemostly inland floodingModerate

Harrisonmostly inland floodingModerate

Steenmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Harrison covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Harrison’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Harrison. 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 Harrison total about $2.1M 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.