Natural hazards · Vincennes

Vincennes, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vincennes comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 10 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Vincennes?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vincennes to be higher than in 42% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes39%Inland flooding36%Tornadoes11%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Vincennes faces

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

Earthquakes

39% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 32% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

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 Vincennes flood?

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

10paid claims since 1981

$105Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Vincennes 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 Vincennes

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into VincennesDeclared for Knox County only

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

Around Vincennes

Vincennes and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Denisonmostly inland floodingHigh

St. Francisvillemostly inland floodingHigh

Allisonmostly inland floodingHigh

Palmyramostly inland floodingModerate

Deckermostly inland floodingModerate

Johnsonmostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Vincennesmostly earthquakesModerate

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. Vincennes covers 5 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Vincennes’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Vincennes. 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 Vincennes total about $7.1M 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.