Natural hazards · Lake

Lake, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lake comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2022.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lake?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lake to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding51%Tornadoes22%Drought9%Strong wind6%Cold waves5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Lake 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

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 46 years in the area

Drought

9% of expected damage

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Lake flood?

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

1paid claims since 2022

$2Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20222026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Allen County.

Disasters that hit Lake

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LakeDeclared for Allen County only

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

Around Lake

Lake and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lakemostly inland floodingLow

Aboitemostly inland floodingVery low

Washingtonmostly inland floodingVery low

Unionmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Lake covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lake’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Lake. 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 Lake total about $660K 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.