Natural hazards · Wea

Wea, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wea comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low 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 Wea?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wea to be higher than in 13% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding39%Cold waves30%Tornadoes11%Heat waves5%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Wea faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

30% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Wea flood?

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

10paid claims since 1981

$182Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tippecanoe County.

Disasters that hit Wea

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WeaDeclared for Tippecanoe County only

Tippecanoe County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Wea

Wea and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Shadelandmostly inland floodingLow

Unionmostly inland floodingLow

Sheffieldmostly inland floodingVery low

Weamostly inland floodingVery low

Fairfieldmostly inland floodingVery low

Lafayettemostly inland floodingVery low

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. Wea covers 8 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wea’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wea. 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 Wea total about $8.9M 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.