Natural hazards · Pike

Pike, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pike comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 20 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pike?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pike to be higher than in 45% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding61%Tornadoes13%Cold waves9%Heat waves6%Earthquakes6%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Pike faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Pike flood?

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

20paid claims since 1978

$80Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marion County.

Disasters that hit Pike

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PikeDeclared for Marion County only

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

Around Pike

Pike and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brownmostly inland floodingHigh

Waynemostly inland floodingModerate

Pikemostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Zionsvillemostly 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. Pike covers 18 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pike’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pike. 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 Pike total about $26.5M 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.