Natural hazards · Barbourmeade

Barbourmeade, KY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Barbourmeade comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Barbourmeade?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Barbourmeade to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding66%Tornadoes23%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Barbourmeade faces

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

Inland flooding

66% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Barbourmeade flood?

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

3paid claims since 1978

$25Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 1 claim, $2K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson County.

Disasters that hit Barbourmeade

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BarbourmeadeDeclared for Jefferson County only

Jefferson County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Barbourmeade

Barbourmeade and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Barbourmeademostly inland floodingHigh

Spring Valleymostly inland floodingHigh

Goose Creekmostly 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. Barbourmeade covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Barbourmeade’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Barbourmeade. 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 Barbourmeade total about $2.6M 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.