Natural hazards · Damar

Damar, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Damar comes from hail, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Damar?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Damar to be higher than in 61% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and drought.

Hail42%Drought18%Inland flooding13%Strong wind10%Tornadoes9%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Damar faces

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

Hail

42% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Drought

18% of expected damage

Recorded about 45 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 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 Damar flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Rooks County.

Disasters that hit Damar

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DamarDeclared for Rooks County only

2013

Snowstorm

$2K to the City of Damar for repairs

2006

Severe Winter Storm

$3K to the City of Damar for repairs

2004

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

$951 to the City of Damar for repairs

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

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. Damar 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 Damar’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Damar. 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.