Kosciusko County, Indiana: hazard history

FEMA declared 18 disasters that named Kosciusko County between 1974 and 2026.

Most recent declarations

• EM-3651 2026 · Flood · Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, And Flooding
• EM-3641 2026 · Winter Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• DR-4515 2020 · Biological · Covid-19 Pandemic
• EM-3456 2020 · Biological · Covid-19
• DR-4363 2018 · Flood · Severe Storms And Flooding
• DR-4173 2014 · Severe Storm · Severe Winter Storm And Snowstorm
• DR-1832 2009 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
• DR-1740 2008 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms And Flooding
• EM-3274 2007 · Snowstorm · Snow
• EM-3238 2005 · Hurricane · Hurricane Katrina Evacuation

Not counted above: 4 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.

NOAA storm event records in Kosciusko County each year. The busiest year was 2014, with 36 records.

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

Costliest records

1. Thunderstorm Wind · May 14, 2009$5.0M
   NOAA name: KOSCIUSKO · NOAA record 159084
2. Tornado · Oct 18, 2007$3.0M
   NOAA name: KOSCIUSKO · NOAA record 55288
3. Tornado · Oct 24, 2001$2.5M
   NOAA name: KOSCIUSKO · 14 injuries · NOAA record 5270582
4. Tornado · Jun 11, 1998$800K
   NOAA name: KOSCIUSKO · 4 injuries · NOAA record 5647452
5. Thunderstorm Wind · Jul 21, 1998$500K
   NOAA name: KOSCIUSKO · NOAA record 5655019

Deadliest records

1. Winter Storm · Mar 4, 20081 death
   NOAA name: KOSCIUSKO · NOAA record 86541
2. Cold/Wind Chill · Feb 10, 20111 death
   NOAA name: KOSCIUSKO · NOAA record 283230
3. Thunderstorm Wind · Jul 1, 20141 death
   NOAA name: KOSCIUSKO · NOAA record 538293

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 $4.1M on 388 claims in Kosciusko County from 1978 to 2023.

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 Kosciusko 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 by county and others by forecast zone, and names both. Records are counted as Kosciusko County when their NOAA name is this county's name, alone or with a word like “Coastal” or “Inland” in front. The county codes NOAA also publishes have not been loaded for Indiana yet; when they are, this page will count by code instead, and some counties' records will grow. NOAA names counted here: KOSCIUSKO, NORTHERN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, SOUTHERN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY. Zones named for something else, such as a mountain range or two counties at once, are left out: 0% of Indiana's NOAA records.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.