Natural hazards · Yetter

Yetter, IA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yetter comes from drought, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Yetter?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Drought22%Inland flooding21%Hail20%Tornadoes19%Cold waves10%Strong wind7%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Yetter faces

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

Drought

22% of expected damage

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce 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 Yetter flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Calhoun County.

Disasters that hit Yetter

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Yetter itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Yetter.

Brought FEMA money into YetterDeclared for Calhoun County only

2010

Severe Winter Storm

$2K to the City of Yetter for repairs

2004

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $681 aid approved

Calhoun County has had 16 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. Yetter 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 Yetter’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Yetter. 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.