Natural hazards · Chicopee

Chicopee, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Chicopee comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 44 claims here since 1993.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Chicopee?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Chicopee to be higher than in 86% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding63%Tornadoes16%Strong wind5%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Chicopee faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 69 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Chicopee flood?

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

44paid claims since 1993

$754Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

Biggest named events

Thunderstorms: 2 claims, $51K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Crawford County.

Disasters that hit Chicopee

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ChicopeeDeclared for Crawford County only

Crawford County has had 21 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. Chicopee covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Chicopee’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Chicopee. 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 Chicopee total about $2.8M 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.