Natural hazards · Pleasant View

Pleasant View, KY natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant View?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant View to be higher than in 90% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding77%Cold waves7%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Pleasant View faces

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

Inland flooding

77% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingTsunamisVolcanic 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 Pleasant View flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Whitley County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant View

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant ViewDeclared for Whitley County only

Whitley County has had 33 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Pleasant View 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 Pleasant View’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pleasant View. 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.