Natural hazards · Buckeye

Buckeye, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Buckeye comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 25 claims here since 1993.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Buckeye?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Buckeye to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding42%Tornadoes19%Heat waves11%Strong wind7%Hail6%Wildfire5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Buckeye faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Wildfire

5% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Buckeye flood?

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

25paid claims since 1993

$102Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

Biggest named events

Midwest Flooding: 20 claims, $64K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dickinson County.

Disasters that hit Buckeye

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BuckeyeDeclared for Dickinson County only

Dickinson County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Buckeye

Buckeye and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Buckeyemostly inland floodingHigh

Hayesmostly inland floodingHigh

Willowdalemostly inland floodingHigh

Cheevermostly inland floodingHigh

Grantmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Buckeye covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Buckeye’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Buckeye. 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 Buckeye total about $3.7M 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.