Natural hazards · Vigo

Vigo, IN natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vigo to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding45%Earthquakes20%Tornadoes16%Heat waves6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Vigo 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

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Vigo flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Knox County.

Disasters that hit Vigo

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VigoDeclared for Knox County only

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

Around Vigo

Vigo and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Staffordmostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Steelemostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Widnermostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Steenmostly inland floodingModerate

Vigomostly inland floodingModerate

Elmoremostly 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. Vigo covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Vigo’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Vigo. 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 Vigo total about $959K 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.