Natural hazards · Southeast

Southeast, IN natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Southeast to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding44%Tornadoes29%Strong wind9%Earthquakes5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Southeast faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

29% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% 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 Southeast flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Orange County.

Disasters that hit Southeast

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SoutheastDeclared for Orange County only

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

Around Southeast

Southeast and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Libertymostly inland floodingVery high

Paolimostly inland floodingHigh

Poseymostly inland floodingHigh

Greenfieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Southeastmostly inland floodingModerate

Stampers Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Southeast is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Southeast’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Southeast. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

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.