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 moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Monroe?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Monroe to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding49%Earthquakes19%Tornadoes13%Strong wind6%Heat waves5%Everything else8%

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

49% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 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 Monroe flood?

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

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: Pike County.

Disasters that hit Monroe

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MonroeDeclared for Pike County only

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

Around Monroe

Monroe and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lanemostly inland floodingHigh

Monroemostly inland floodingModerate

Patokamostly inland floodingModerate

Arthurmostly inland floodingModerate

Hartmostly inland floodingModerate

Columbiamostly earthquakesModerate

Bartonmostly earthquakesModerate

Lockhartmostly inland floodingModerate

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; 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 $1.3M 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.