Natural hazards · Grant

Grant, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Grant comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 29 claims here since 1993.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Grant?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Grant to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding33%Tornadoes21%Wildfire14%Cold waves9%Strong wind8%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Grant faces

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

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 26 years in the area

Wildfire

14% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Grant flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Grant, from FEMA’s records.

29paid claims since 1993

$614Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

Biggest named events

Midwest Flooding: 2 claims, $4K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Reno County.

Disasters that hit Grant

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into GrantDeclared for Reno County only

Reno County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

Around Grant

Grant and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Grantmostly inland floodingHigh

Salt Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

The Highlandsmostly inland floodingHigh

East Washingtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Sterlingmostly inland floodingHigh

West Washingtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Renomostly tornadoesLow

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. Grant covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Grant’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Grant. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Grant total about $2.4M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.