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Natural hazards · Chanute

Chanute, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Chanute comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 44 claims here since 1982. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Chanute?

57
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Chanute to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding40%Tornadoes25%Cold waves9%Strong wind8%Heat waves7%Everything else11%
By hazard

What Chanute faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

25% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 91 years in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places
Recorded about 16 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Chanute flood?

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

44paid claims since 1982
$666Kpaid to owners
3homes flooded more than once
19822026

Biggest named events

  • Thunderstorms: 18 claims, $464K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Chanute isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Neosho County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

10flood-prone properties bought out and cleared
5storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Chanute

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Chanute itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Chanute.

Brought FEMA money into ChanuteDeclared for Neosho County only
2019

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, Flooding,landslides,and Mudslides

$182K to the City of Chanute for repairs
2018

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$34K to the City of Chanute for repairs
2009

Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorm

$9K to the City of Chanute for repairs
2007

Severe Storms and Flooding

95 households applied for aid $277K aid approved $171K to the City of Chanute for repairs
2005

Severe Storms and Flooding

$157K to the City of Chanute for repairs
2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $2K aid approved
2002

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$1.2M to the City of Chanute for repairs
Neosho County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Chanute

Chanute and the towns around it

Tioga: High, mostly inland floodingCanville: High, mostly inland floodingBig Creek: High, mostly inland floodingLogan: High, mostly inland floodingColfax: High, mostly inland floodingCottage Grove: Moderate, mostly inland floodingChetopa: High, mostly inland floodingPleasant Valley: High, mostly inland floodingErie: High, mostly inland floodingChanute: Moderate, mostly inland flooding ChanuteTiogaCanville
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Canvillemostly inland floodingHigh
Tiogamostly inland floodingHigh
Chanutemostly 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. Chanute 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 Chanute’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Chanute. 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.

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