Natural hazards · Plain

Plain, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Plain comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 36 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Plain?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Plain to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding45%Tornadoes20%Cold waves19%Strong wind8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Plain faces

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

Inland flooding

45% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 93 years in the area

Cold waves

19% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Plain flood?

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

36paid claims since 1981

$731Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

Biggest named events

Mid-spring storms: 1 claim, $420

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kosciusko County.

Disasters that hit Plain

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PlainDeclared for Kosciusko County only

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

Around Plain

Plain and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Plainmostly inland floodingLow

Tippecanoemostly inland floodingLow

Prairiemostly inland floodingVery low

Van Burenmostly inland floodingVery low

Waynemostly inland floodingVery low

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. Plain covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Plain’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Plain. 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 Plain total about $2.6M 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.