Natural hazards · Cherryvale

Cherryvale, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cherryvale comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cherryvale?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cherryvale to be higher than in 41% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding28%Cold waves27%Tornadoes23%Heat waves8%Strong wind6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Cherryvale faces

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

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 40% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

27% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 71 years in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 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 Cherryvale flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Montgomery County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Cherryvale

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into CherryvaleDeclared for Montgomery County only

2007

Severe Storms and Flooding

8 households applied for aid $8K aid approved

2002

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$2K to the City of Cherryvale for repairs

Montgomery County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Cherryvale covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Cherryvale’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Cherryvale. 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 Cherryvale total about $1.5M 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.