Natural hazards · Pleasant

Pleasant, IN natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding51%Tornadoes22%Strong wind8%Earthquakes6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Pleasant faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

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 Pleasant flood?

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

18paid claims since 1979

$241Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Storm: 9 claims, $191K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Johnson County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PleasantDeclared for Johnson County only

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

Around Pleasant

Pleasant and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Franklinmostly inland floodingModerate

White Rivermostly inland floodingModerate

Pleasantmostly inland floodingModerate

Perrymostly inland floodingModerate

Greenwoodmostly inland floodingModerate

Clarkmostly inland floodingLow

Franklinmostly 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. Pleasant covers 10 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pleasant’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pleasant. 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 Pleasant total about $15.9M 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.