Natural hazards · Fairport

Fairport, IA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fairport comes from inland flooding, 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 Fairport?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fairport to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding50%Drought10%Strong wind10%Hail9%Tornadoes7%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Fairport faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Drought

10% of expected damage

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Hail

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Fairport flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Muscatine County.

Disasters that hit Fairport

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FairportDeclared for Muscatine County only

Muscatine County has had 18 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. Fairport 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 Fairport’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fairport. 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.