Natural hazards · Crystal

Crystal, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Crystal 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?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Crystal to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and drought.

Hail48%Drought17%Inland flooding14%Strong wind9%Tornadoes7%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Crystal faces

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

Hail

48% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Drought

17% of expected damage

Recorded about 36 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

14% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years 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 flood?

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

Disasters that hit Crystal

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CrystalDeclared for Phillips County only

Phillips County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Crystal

Crystal and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Swanmostly hailHigh

Crystalmostly hailHigh

Sumnermostly hailHigh

Greenwoodmostly hailHigh

Plummostly 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 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 Crystal’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Crystal. 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.