Natural hazards · Frytown

Frytown, IA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Frytown comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Frytown?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Frytown to be higher than in 64% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes33%Inland flooding25%Strong wind14%Drought9%Cold waves9%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Frytown faces

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

Tornadoes

33% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Inland flooding

25% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

14% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Drought

9% of expected damage

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Frytown flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Johnson County.

Disasters that hit Frytown

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FrytownDeclared for Johnson County only

Johnson County has had 20 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. Frytown 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 Frytown’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Frytown. 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.