Natural hazards · Posey

Posey, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Posey comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2013.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Posey?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding45%Tornadoes12%Strong wind12%Cold waves10%Earthquakes8%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Posey 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

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Strong wind

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Posey flood?

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

1paid claims since 2013

$67Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20132026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clay County.

Disasters that hit Posey

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PoseyDeclared for Clay County only

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

Around Posey

Posey and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Poseymostly inland floodingModerate

Cloverlandmostly inland floodingModerate

Nevinsmostly inland floodingModerate

Perrymostly inland floodingModerate

Brazilmostly inland floodingLow

Lost Creekmostly inland floodingLow

Dick Johnsonmostly inland floodingLow

Jacksonmostly 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. Posey covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Posey’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Posey. 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 Posey total about $1.5M 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.