Natural hazards · Pleasant Run

Pleasant Run, IN natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Run to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes18%Strong wind8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Pleasant Run faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 21 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Pleasant Run flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lawrence County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant Run

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant RunDeclared for Lawrence County only

Lawrence County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Pleasant Run

Pleasant Run and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Owenmostly inland floodingModerate

Salt Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Marshallmostly inland floodingModerate

Pleasant Runmostly inland floodingModerate

Guthriemostly inland floodingModerate

Shawswickmostly inland floodingLow

Polkmostly 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 Run covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pleasant Run’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pleasant Run. 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 Run total about $2.0M 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.