Natural hazards · Mier

Mier, IN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mier?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mier to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding56%Tornadoes22%Everything else23%

By hazard

What Mier faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Mier flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Grant County.

Disasters that hit Mier

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MierDeclared for Grant County only

Grant County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

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