Natural hazards · Asherville

Asherville, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Asherville comes from hail, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Asherville?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Asherville to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and inland flooding.

Hail31%Inland flooding29%Strong wind13%Tornadoes11%Ice storms6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Asherville faces

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

Hail

31% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Winter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Asherville flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Mitchell County.

Disasters that hit Asherville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AshervilleDeclared for Mitchell County only

Mitchell County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

Around Asherville

Asherville and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ashervillemostly hailHigh

Loganmostly hailHigh

Beloitmostly hailHigh

Solomonmostly inland floodingModerate

Summitmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Asherville 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 Asherville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Asherville. 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.