Natural hazards · Eads

Eads, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Eads comes from drought, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Eads?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Eads to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought40%Inland flooding26%Hail12%Strong wind6%Cold waves6%Tornadoes6%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Eads faces

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

Drought

40% of expected damage

Recorded about 118 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Hail

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Eads flood?

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

Disasters that hit Eads

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Eads itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Eads.

Brought FEMA money into EadsDeclared for Kiowa County only

2023

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

$74K to the Town of Eads for repairs

2006

Snow

$25K to the Town of Eads for repairs

Kiowa County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

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. Eads 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 Eads’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Eads. 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.