Natural hazards · Crystal Plains

Crystal Plains, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Crystal Plains comes from hail, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Crystal Plains?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Crystal Plains to be higher than in 70% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and inland flooding.

Hail41%Inland flooding17%Drought14%Strong wind13%Tornadoes8%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Crystal Plains faces

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

Hail

41% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Drought

14% of expected damage

Recorded about 49 times a year in the area

Strong wind

13% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Crystal Plains flood?

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

Disasters that hit Crystal Plains

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Crystal PlainsDeclared for Smith County only

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

Around Crystal Plains

Crystal Plains and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Crystal Plainsmostly hailHigh

Bannermostly hailHigh

Webstermostly hailHigh

Garfieldmostly hailHigh

Blainemostly hailHigh

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. Crystal Plains covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Crystal Plains’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Crystal Plains. 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 Crystal Plains total about $6.8M 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.