Natural hazards · Big Bow

Big Bow, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Big Bow comes from drought, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Big Bow?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Big Bow to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought74%Hail8%Inland flooding6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Big Bow faces

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

Drought

74% of expected damage

Recorded about 125 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Big Bow flood?

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

Disasters that hit Big Bow

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Big BowDeclared for Stanton County only

Stanton County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

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. Big Bow 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 Big Bow’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Big Bow. 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.