Natural hazards · Millerton

Millerton, IA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Millerton 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 Millerton?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Millerton to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought26%Inland flooding24%Tornadoes22%Cold waves9%Strong wind6%Heat waves6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Millerton faces

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

Drought

26% of expected damage

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year 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 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 Millerton flood?

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

Disasters that hit Millerton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MillertonDeclared for Wayne County only

Wayne County has had 13 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. Millerton 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 Millerton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Millerton. 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.