Natural hazards · Centropolis

Centropolis, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Centropolis comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 2007.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Centropolis?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Centropolis to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding42%Tornadoes16%Strong wind8%Cold waves7%Heat waves7%Hail6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Centropolis 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

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Centropolis flood?

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

7paid claims since 2007

$289Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20072026

Biggest named events

Thunderstorms: 1 claim, $20K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Franklin County.

Disasters that hit Centropolis

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CentropolisDeclared for Franklin County only

Franklin County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Centropolis

Centropolis and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Centropolismostly inland floodingHigh

Appanoosemostly inland floodingHigh

Greenwoodmostly inland floodingHigh

Hayesmostly inland floodingModerate

Ottawamostly inland floodingModerate

Marionmostly 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. Centropolis covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Centropolis’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Centropolis. 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 Centropolis total about $2.2M 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.