Natural hazards · Marrs

Marrs, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Marrs comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 11 claims here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Marrs?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Marrs to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding47%Earthquakes19%Tornadoes14%Heat waves5%Strong wind5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Marrs faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 25 years in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Marrs flood?

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

11paid claims since 1997

$284Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

Biggest named events

Mid-spring storms: 3 claims, $153K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Marrs 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 Marrs

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MarrsDeclared for Posey County only

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

Around Marrs

Marrs and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Blackmostly inland floodingVery high

Robinsonmostly inland floodingHigh

Marrsmostly inland floodingHigh

Perrymostly inland floodingHigh

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. Marrs covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Marrs’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Marrs. 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 Marrs total about $2.7M 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.