Natural hazards · Veale

Veale, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Veale comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2022.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Veale?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Veale to be higher than in 45% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding46%Earthquakes21%Tornadoes14%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Veale faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

21% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 20 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Veale flood?

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

2paid claims since 2022

$125Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20222026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Daviess County.

Disasters that hit Veale

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VealeDeclared for Daviess County only

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

Around Veale

Veale and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Vealemostly inland floodingModerate

Harrisonmostly inland floodingModerate

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingModerate

Harrisonmostly 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. Veale covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Veale’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Veale. 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 Veale total about $2.1M 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.