Natural hazards · Kent

Kent, IN natural hazards

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

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding49%Cold waves20%Tornadoes9%Strong wind6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Kent faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 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 Kent flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Warren County.

Disasters that hit Kent

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KentDeclared for Warren County only

Warren County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and winter storms.

Around Kent

Kent and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kentmostly inland floodingLow

Steubenmostly inland floodingLow

Moundmostly inland floodingLow

Troymostly inland floodingLow

Newellmostly 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. Kent 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 Kent’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Kent. 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.