Natural hazards · Nevins

Nevins, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Nevins comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 18 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Nevins?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Nevins to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding50%Tornadoes12%Cold waves11%Earthquakes8%Strong wind7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Nevins faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 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 Nevins flood?

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

18paid claims since 1979

$326Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Storm: 8 claims, $190K
Mid-spring storms: 1 claim, $11K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Vigo County.

Disasters that hit Nevins

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NevinsDeclared for Vigo County only

Vigo County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Nevins

Nevins and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Floridamostly inland floodingHigh

Poseymostly inland floodingModerate

Otter Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Nevinsmostly inland floodingModerate

Lost Creekmostly inland floodingLow

Dick Johnsonmostly 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. Nevins covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Nevins’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Nevins. 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 Nevins total about $2.2M 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.