Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Storms, floods and disasters in Campbellsburg
Campbellsburg isn’t graded for hazard risk: Campbellsburg has 635 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more.
What Campbellsburg faces
Each hazard’s share of the building damage FEMA expects here, and how its rate compares with the rest of the country.
River and rain flooding
Tornadoes
Earthquakes
Shares are of FEMA’s expected building damage, the measure the grade uses; ranks compare each hazard’s building-damage rate with all 85,154 U.S. census tracts. In FEMA’s terms, river and rain flooding is FEMA’s “Inland Flooding” (rivers and streams overflowing their banks, or rain overwhelming drainage). FEMA defines coastal flooding as high or rising tides and storm surge, so surge damage is counted there. Drought isn’t listed: FEMA counts its losses in crops only.
Does Campbellsburg flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Campbellsburg. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Campbellsburg isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Washington County.3 federal disasters brought FEMA money to Campbellsburg
Disasters that paid out in Campbellsburg itself (aid to households or repair grants to the Town of Campbellsburg), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2008Severe Storms and Flooding15 households applied for aid$29K aid approved
- 2005Severe Winter Storms and Flooding4 households applied for aid$2K aid approved
- 2004Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding2 households applied for aid$12K aid approved
Washington County has had 17 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often severe storms, then floods. Not counted: the 2005 Hurricane Katrina evacuee emergency, which covered counties that took in evacuees.
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A short kit for the hazards that drive the building damage here, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Pick your spot now: the lowest floor, an inside room, no windows.
- A watch means be ready; a warning means take cover now.
- Keep shoes and a flashlight by the bed.
- Drop, cover and hold on.
- Strap tall furniture and the water heater to the wall.
- Know how to shut off the gas.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
Know where neighbors sign up for alerts? Add it to the Handbook so everyone has it.
Questions about natural hazards in Campbellsburg
Is Campbellsburg in a flood zone?
Flood zones are drawn street by street, so the answer depends on the address: look it up on FEMA’s flood map. In Washington County, 3% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 0.1% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Campbellsburg?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Campbellsburg’s flood program. Premiums depend on the building; policies usually start 30 days after you buy, so get a quote early.
What was the biggest storm in Campbellsburg?
By FEMA money that reached Campbellsburg, Severe Storms and Flooding (2008): 15 households applied for aid, $29K approved.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Campbellsburg.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Campbellsburg’s residents lived in the 2020 census; 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. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. FEMA’s model is an average of expected damage, not a forecast. How hazard risk is graded.