Natural hazards · Canada

Canada, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Canada 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 Canada?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Canada to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding39%Tornadoes18%Drought12%Cold waves12%Strong wind6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Canada faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Drought

12% of expected damage

Recorded about 27 times a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Canada flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Labette County.

Disasters that hit Canada

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CanadaDeclared for Labette County only

Labette County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Canada

Canada and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Libertymostly inland floodingHigh

Canadamostly inland floodingModerate

Howardmostly inland floodingModerate

Elm Grovemostly inland floodingModerate

Mound Valleymostly inland floodingModerate

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