Natural hazards · Deerhead

Deerhead, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Deerhead comes from cold waves, 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 Deerhead?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Deerhead to be higher than in 73% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and drought.

Cold waves36%Drought26%Wildfire12%Inland flooding8%Tornadoes7%Hail7%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Deerhead faces

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

Cold waves

36% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

26% of expected damage

Recorded about 64 times a year in the area

Wildfire

12% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

8% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Deerhead flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Barber County.

Disasters that hit Deerhead

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DeerheadDeclared for Barber County only

Barber County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

Around Deerhead

Deerhead and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Coldwatermostly wildfiresVery high

Sun Citymostly cold wavesVery high

Deerheadmostly cold wavesHigh

Aetnamostly cold wavesHigh

Eaglemostly cold wavesHigh

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