Natural hazards · Pigeon

Pigeon, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pigeon comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 77 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pigeon?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pigeon to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes46%Inland flooding28%Tornadoes12%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Pigeon faces

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

Earthquakes

46% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% 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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Pigeon flood?

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

77paid claims since 1978

$634Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 2 claims, $1K
Mid-spring storms: 2 claims, $13K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Vanderburgh County.

Disasters that hit Pigeon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PigeonDeclared for Vanderburgh County only

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

Around Pigeon

Pigeon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Centermostly inland floodingHigh

Evansvillemostly earthquakesHigh

Perrymostly inland floodingHigh

Knightmostly earthquakesHigh

Pigeonmostly earthquakesHigh

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. Pigeon covers 15 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pigeon’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pigeon. 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 Pigeon total about $20.7M 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.