Natural hazards · Monroe

Monroe, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Monroe comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 12 claims here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Monroe?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Monroe to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding56%Tornadoes25%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Monroe 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

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

25% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 42 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 Monroe flood?

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

12paid claims since 2003

$278Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20032026

Biggest named events

2026-08-Indiana-Flooding: 8 claims, $191K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Delaware County.

Disasters that hit Monroe

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MonroeDeclared for Delaware County only

Delaware County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Monroe

Monroe and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Munciemostly inland floodingModerate

Centermostly inland floodingModerate

Prairiemostly inland floodingLow

Salemmostly inland floodingLow

Monroemostly inland floodingLow

Perrymostly inland floodingLow

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. Monroe covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Monroe’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Monroe. 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 Monroe total about $875K 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.