Natural hazards · Whiskey Run

Whiskey Run, IN natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Whiskey Run comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 37 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Whiskey Run?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Whiskey Run to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding62%Tornadoes19%Strong wind6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Whiskey Run faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 23 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Whiskey Run flood?

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

37paid claims since 1979

$597Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

March storm: 6 claims, $307K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Crawford County.

Disasters that hit Whiskey Run

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Whiskey RunDeclared for Crawford County only

Crawford County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Whiskey Run

Whiskey Run and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Whiskey Runmostly inland floodingVery high

Libertymostly inland floodingVery high

Milltownmostly inland floodingVery high

Jenningsmostly inland floodingVery high

Poseymostly inland floodingHigh

Sterlingmostly inland floodingHigh

Blue Rivermostly inland floodingModerate

Spencermostly inland floodingModerate

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. Whiskey Run covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

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