Natural hazards · Morris

Morris, IN natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Morris?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding41%Tornadoes31%Strong wind11%Earthquakes6%Cold waves5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Morris faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 32 years in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Morris flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ripley County.

Disasters that hit Morris

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MorrisDeclared for Ripley County only

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

Around Morris

Morris and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Batesvillemostly inland floodingLow

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