Natural hazards · Orleans

Orleans, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Orleans 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 Orleans?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Orleans to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding37%Tornadoes29%Earthquakes12%Strong wind9%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Orleans faces

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

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

29% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 31 years in the area

Earthquakes

12% of expected damage

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

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Orleans flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Orange County.

Disasters that hit Orleans

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into OrleansDeclared for Orange County only

Orange County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Orleans

Orleans and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Paolimostly inland floodingHigh

Orangevillemostly inland floodingModerate

Marionmostly inland floodingModerate

Orleansmostly inland floodingModerate

Northeastmostly 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. Orleans covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Orleans’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Orleans. 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 Orleans total about $1.9M 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.