Natural hazards · Belvue

Belvue, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Belvue comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Belvue?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Belvue to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding36%Tornadoes18%Wildfire9%Ice storms8%Cold waves8%Heat waves6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Belvue faces

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Wildfire

9% of expected damage

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

Ice storms

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 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 13 times a year in the area

Lower here

Winter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Belvue flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pottawatomie County.

Disasters that hit Belvue

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BelvueDeclared for Pottawatomie County only

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$23K to the City of Belvue for repairs

Pottawatomie 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. Belvue 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 Belvue’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Belvue. 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.