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 very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 91 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Monroe?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Monroe to be higher than in 19% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding42%Cold waves24%Tornadoes14%Strong wind7%Everything else14%

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

42% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

24% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 88 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Monroe flood?

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

91paid claims since 1981

$1.5Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

Biggest named events

Mid-spring storms: 1 claim, $2K

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: Pulaski County.

Disasters that hit Monroe

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MonroeDeclared for Pulaski County only

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

Around Monroe

Monroe and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Indian Creekmostly inland floodingLow

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingLow

Harrisonmostly inland floodingLow

Tippecanoemostly inland floodingLow

Monroemostly inland floodingVery low

Franklinmostly inland floodingVery low

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 $1.4M 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.