Natural hazards · Kent Estates

Kent Estates, IA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kent Estates comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kent Estates?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kent Estates to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding42%Strong wind15%Hail11%Tornadoes10%Heat waves9%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Kent Estates faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Strong wind

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Kent Estates flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Kent Estates 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 Kent Estates

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Kent EstatesDeclared 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. Kent Estates covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kent Estates’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Kent Estates. 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 Kent Estates total about $1.8M 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.