Gibson County, Indiana: hazard history

FEMA declared 22 disasters that named Gibson County between 1968 and 2026.

Most recent declarations

• EM-3641 2026 · Winter Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• EM-3456 2020 · Biological · Covid-19
• DR-4515 2020 · Biological · Covid-19 Pandemic
• DR-4363 2018 · Flood · Severe Storms And Flooding
• DR-1997 2011 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, And
• DR-1828 2009 · Severe Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• DR-1795 2008 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms And Flooding
• DR-1766 2008 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Flooding, And Tornadoes
• EM-3238 2005 · Hurricane · Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
• DR-1573 2005 · Severe Storm · Severe Winter Storms And Flooding

Not counted above: 3 statewide declarations, which covered every county in Indiana. A declaration is a decision to send federal help, not a measure of how bad an event was. Records run from 1953. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.

Records start in 1996. Damage is NOAA's estimate at the time, in nominal dollars, and is often rounded; it is not insurance claims data. A storm that crossed two NOAA zones in this county is recorded, and counted, once per zone. A storm filed against a forecast zone is counted in every county that zone covers, with the whole storm's damage; do not add these figures across counties.

NOAA storm event records in Gibson County each year. The busiest year was 2019, with 58 records.

Years with no record are left out of the table, not shown as zero.

Costliest records

1. Thunderstorm Wind · Jul 31, 2012$6.0M
   NOAA name: Gibson County · 1 injury · NOAA record 391572
2. Tornado · Feb 28, 2017$3.2M
   NOAA name: Gibson County · 1 injury · NOAA record 677883
3. Hail · Mar 2, 2012$3.0M
   NOAA name: Gibson County · NOAA record 373812
4. Tornado · Mar 15, 2025$2.0M
   NOAA name: Gibson County · NOAA record 1242130
5. Hail · May 3, 1996$1.5M
   NOAA name: Gibson County · NOAA record 5554766

Deadliest records

1. Flash Flood · Jun 6, 19961 death
   NOAA name: Gibson County · $5K damage · NOAA record 5560267
2. Thunderstorm Wind · May 30, 20151 death
   NOAA name: Gibson County · $2K damage · 1 injury · NOAA record 571143
3. Strong Wind · Sep 27, 20241 death
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · $30K damage · NOAA record 1215993

Each line is one NOAA record, linked to its page at NOAA. One large storm can appear more than once if NOAA recorded it in several zones of this county. Dollars are nominal.

The National Flood Insurance Program paid $500K on 48 claims in Gibson County from 1979 to 2019.

A count of claims, not a rate: NFIP publishes no count of insured homes beside it, and most flood damage is uninsured. Nominal dollars. Records run from 1978 to 2024; claims filed without a county code are not on any county page. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

A hazard vulnerability analysis rates each hazard for probability, impact, preparedness and response. Probability is the one column the county’s federal record can fill — NCEI storm events from 1996 to 2026 and FEMA declarations naming the county — and this is what it says for a facility here, on the 0–3 scale of the all-hazards structure surveyors expect. The other six columns are the facility’s own judgment about its building, and Calchis leaves them blank.

A dash means the record does not speak to that hazard; it is not a zero. Whether a finished document satisfies the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule is the facility’s finding and its surveyor’s. Complete the HVA for a facility in Gibson County — the technological, human and hazardous-materials rows, the six facility columns, the approval and the printed document — or read the sample analysis on that page first.

• Every figure is counted from public federal records held by Calchis: NOAA NCEI Storm Events, FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations, and FEMA NFIP claims. Nothing is modeled or estimated.
• NOAA files some events against a county and others against an NWS forecast zone, and publishes a code for both. Records are counted as Gibson County by that code — county records by the county's own FIPS code, zone records through the National Weather Service's published list of which counties each zone covers. No name matching is involved. Of 1,011 records, 533 were filed against this county and 478 against a forecast zone covering it. A zone storm is counted in every county its zone covers, and its damage figure is the whole storm's, not this county's share — NOAA does not publish that split. So these figures describe this county; they must not be added up across counties. Left out: 1% of Indiana's NOAA records, which are marine zones or zones NWS does not map to a county.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.