Natural hazards · Bondurant

Bondurant, IA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bondurant comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2018. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Bondurant?

32
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bondurant to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding43%Tornadoes17%Drought13%Strong wind7%Cold waves7%Heat waves6%Everything else7%
By hazard

What Bondurant faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Drought

13% of expected damage
Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places
Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places
Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Bondurant flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Bondurant, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2018
$71Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
20182026
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Bondurant isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Polk County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Bondurant

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BondurantDeclared for Polk County only
2024

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

4 households applied for aid $25K aid approved
2020

Severe Storms

28 households applied for aid $12K aid approved $174K to the City of Bondurant for repairs
2018

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$78K to the City of Bondurant for repairs
2010

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

99 households applied for aid $173K aid approved $59K to the City of Bondurant for repairs
2008

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

52 households applied for aid $66K aid approved $47K to the City of Bondurant for repairs
2007

Severe Winter Storms

$7K to the City of Bondurant for repairs
Polk County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
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. Bondurant covers 1 census tract, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Bondurant’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Bondurant. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Bondurant total about $3.8M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.

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