Natural hazards · Vienna

Vienna, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vienna comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 2 claims here since 2000.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Vienna?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vienna to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes35%Inland flooding34%Earthquakes11%Strong wind10%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Vienna faces

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

Tornadoes

35% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

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

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

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 Vienna flood?

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

2paid claims since 2000

$137Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20002026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Scott County.

Disasters that hit Vienna

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ViennaDeclared for Scott County only

Scott County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Vienna

Vienna and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Monroemostly inland floodingHigh

Lexingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Finleymostly inland floodingModerate

Johnsonmostly inland floodingModerate

Jenningsmostly tornadoesLow

Austinmostly tornadoesLow

Viennamostly tornadoesLow

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. Vienna covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Vienna’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Vienna. 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 Vienna total about $2.3M 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.