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Natural hazards · Vevay

Vevay, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vevay comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 9 claims here since 1978. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Vevay?

55
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vevay to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding53%Tornadoes21%Strong wind16%Everything else10%
By hazard

What Vevay faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 33 years in the area

Strong wind

16% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 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 Vevay flood?

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

9paid claims since 1978
$109Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
19782026

Biggest named events

  • Not a named storm: 4 claims, $5K
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Vevay isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Switzerland County.
Disasters that hit Vevay

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Vevay itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Vevay.

Brought FEMA money into VevayDeclared for Switzerland County only
2025

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$44K to the Town of Vevay for repairs
2018

Severe Storms and Flooding

10 households applied for aid $62K aid approved $151K to the Town of Vevay for repairs
2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

78 households applied for aid $13K aid approved $80K to the Town of Vevay for repairs
2008

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

$6K to the Town of Vevay for repairs
2004

Snow

$2K to the Town of Vevay for repairs
Switzerland County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Vevay

Vevay and the towns around it

Jefferson: Moderate, mostly inland floodingCraig: Moderate, mostly inland floodingYork: High, mostly inland floodingCotton: High, mostly inland floodingPleasant: Moderate, mostly inland floodingLamb: Moderate, mostly inland floodingMilton: High, mostly inland floodingVevay: Moderate, mostly inland flooding VevayJeffersonCraig
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Vevaymostly inland floodingModerate
Craigmostly inland floodingModerate
Jeffersonmostly 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. Vevay 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 Vevay’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Vevay. 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.

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