Natural hazards · Maples

Maples, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Maples comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Maples?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Maples to be higher than in 14% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding57%Tornadoes24%Earthquakes6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Maples faces

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

Inland flooding

57% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 25 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Maples flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Maples 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 Maples

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MaplesDeclared for Allen County only

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

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. Maples 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 Maples’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Maples. 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.