Natural hazards · Lynn

Lynn, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lynn comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lynn?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lynn to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding54%Earthquakes25%Tornadoes8%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Lynn faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

25% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Lynn flood?

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

4paid claims since 1983

$16Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

Biggest named events

Mid-spring storms: 1 claim, $7K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Posey County.

Disasters that hit Lynn

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LynnDeclared for Posey County only

Posey County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Lynn

Lynn and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lynnmostly inland floodingVery high

Blackmostly inland floodingVery high

Harmonymostly inland floodingVery high

Robinsonmostly inland floodingHigh

Centermostly inland floodingHigh

Hawthornemostly earthquakesHigh

Emmamostly earthquakesHigh

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. Lynn covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lynn’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Lynn. 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 Lynn total about $2.3M 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.