Natural hazards · Basehor

Basehor, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Basehor comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1998. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Basehor?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Basehor to be higher than in 35% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding35%Tornadoes23%Cold waves13%Heat waves12%Strong wind7%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Basehor faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Basehor flood?

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

3paid claims since 1998

$40Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19982026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Leavenworth County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Basehor

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BasehorDeclared for Leavenworth County only

2009

Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorm

$6K to the City of Basehor for repairs

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$19K to the City of Basehor for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$375 to the City of Basehor for repairs

2005

Severe Winter Storms, Heavy Rains, and Flooding

$6K to the City of Basehor for repairs

Leavenworth County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Basehor

Basehor and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Basehormostly inland floodingLow

Kansas Citymostly inland floodingLow

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. Basehor covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Basehor’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Basehor. 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 Basehor total about $1.8M 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.