Natural hazards · Le Roy

Le Roy, IA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Le Roy comes from drought, 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 Le Roy?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Le Roy to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought42%Inland flooding22%Cold waves12%Tornadoes10%Heat waves6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Le Roy faces

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

Drought

42% of expected damage

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Le Roy flood?

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

Disasters that hit Le Roy

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Le RoyDeclared for Decatur County only

Decatur County has had 12 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. Le Roy 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 Le Roy’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Le Roy. 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.