Natural hazards · Wabash

Wabash, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wabash comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wabash?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wabash to be higher than in 26% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding51%Tornadoes26%Strong wind8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Wabash faces

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

Inland flooding

51% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 28% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

26% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Wabash flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jay County.

Disasters that hit Wabash

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WabashDeclared for Jay County only

Jay County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often winter storms and severe storms.

Around Wabash

Wabash and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingModerate

Noblemostly inland floodingLow

Wabashmostly inland floodingLow

Bearcreekmostly 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. Wabash 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 Wabash’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wabash. 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.