Natural hazards · Bowcreek

Bowcreek, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bowcreek comes from hail, 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 Bowcreek?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bowcreek to be higher than in 45% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and drought.

Hail39%Drought24%Strong wind13%Inland flooding12%Tornadoes6%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Bowcreek faces

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

Hail

39% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Drought

24% of expected damage

Recorded about 70 times a year in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Bowcreek flood?

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

Disasters that hit Bowcreek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BowcreekDeclared for Sheridan County only

Sheridan County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Bowcreek

Bowcreek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Gettysburgmostly droughtModerate

Bowcreekmostly hailModerate

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