Natural hazards · Sexton

Sexton, IA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sexton comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sexton?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sexton to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding30%Drought28%Cold waves18%Tornadoes16%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Sexton faces

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

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Drought

28% of expected damage

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Cold waves

18% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Sexton flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Sexton, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 1979

$1Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kossuth County.

Disasters that hit Sexton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SextonDeclared for Kossuth County only

Kossuth County has had 17 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. Sexton covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sexton’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Sexton. 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 Sexton total about $3.5M 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.