Natural hazards · Douglas

Douglas, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Douglas comes from drought, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Douglas?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Douglas to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and cold waves.

Drought28%Cold waves22%Inland flooding16%Hail14%Tornadoes11%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Douglas faces

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

Drought

28% of expected damage

Recorded about 65 times a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hail

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Douglas flood?

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

Disasters that hit Douglas

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DouglasDeclared for Stafford County only

Stafford County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Douglas

Douglas and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Loganmostly droughtHigh

South Sewardmostly droughtHigh

Douglasmostly droughtModerate

Lincolnmostly droughtModerate

Clevelandmostly droughtModerate

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