Natural hazards · Dudley

Dudley, KS natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dudley?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dudley to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and cold waves.

Drought53%Cold waves16%Hail14%Tornadoes7%Inland flooding6%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Dudley faces

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

Drought

53% of expected damage

Recorded about 91 times a year in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hail

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Inland flooding

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 13% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 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 Dudley flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Haskell County.

Disasters that hit Dudley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DudleyDeclared for Haskell County only

Haskell County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Dudley

Dudley and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sewardmostly droughtHigh

Ivanhoemostly droughtModerate

Dudleymostly droughtLow

Haskellmostly droughtLow

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