Natural hazards · Lyndon

Lyndon, KY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lyndon comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 24 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lyndon?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lyndon to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding60%Tornadoes28%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Lyndon faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

28% 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 Lyndon flood?

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

24paid claims since 1979

$545Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Lyndon 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 Lyndon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LyndonDeclared for Jefferson County only

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

Around Lyndon

Lyndon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Briarwoodmostly inland floodingHigh

Moorlandmostly inland floodingHigh

Meadowbrook Farmmostly inland floodingHigh

St. Matthewsmostly inland floodingHigh

Lyndonmostly inland floodingHigh

Graymoor-Devondalemostly inland floodingModerate

Bellemeademostly inland floodingModerate

Wildwoodmostly inland floodingModerate

Norwoodmostly 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. Lyndon covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lyndon’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Lyndon. 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 Lyndon total about $3.8M 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.