Natural hazards · Sedalia

Sedalia, CO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sedalia comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sedalia?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sedalia to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire39%Inland flooding28%Tornadoes12%Hail11%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Sedalia faces

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

Wildfire

39% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 14% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 40 years in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Sedalia flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Douglas County.

Disasters that hit Sedalia

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SedaliaDeclared for Douglas County only

Douglas County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

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