Natural hazards · Douglass

Douglass, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Douglass comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Douglass?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Douglass to be higher than in 73% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding35%Tornadoes21%Wildfire15%Cold waves7%Heat waves6%Hail5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Douglass faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Wildfire

15% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Douglass flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Butler County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Douglass

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DouglassDeclared for Butler County only

2009

Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorm

$5K to the City of Douglass for repairs

2009

Severe Winter Storm and Record and Near Record Snow

$7K to the City of Douglass for repairs

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$2K to the City of Douglass for repairs

2007

Severe Storms and Flooding

5 households applied for aid $29K aid approved

2002

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$14K to the City of Douglass for repairs

Butler County has had 25 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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