Natural hazards · Bendena

Bendena, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bendena comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bendena?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bendena to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding32%Tornadoes27%Drought15%Cold waves9%Hail6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Bendena faces

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

Inland flooding

32% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

27% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Drought

15% of expected damage

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice 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 Bendena flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Doniphan County.

Disasters that hit Bendena

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BendenaDeclared for Doniphan County only

Doniphan County has had 18 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. Bendena 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 Bendena’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Bendena. 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.