Natural hazards · High Prairie

High Prairie, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in High Prairie comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2001.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is High Prairie?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in High Prairie to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding41%Tornadoes21%Cold waves11%Heat waves10%Strong wind6%Hail5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What High Prairie faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 High Prairie flood?

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

3paid claims since 2001

$99Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20012026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Leavenworth County.

Disasters that hit High Prairie

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into High PrairieDeclared for Leavenworth County only

Leavenworth County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around High Prairie

High Prairie and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kickapoomostly inland floodingModerate

Strangermostly inland floodingModerate

High Prairiemostly inland floodingLow

Delawaremostly inland floodingLow

Alexandriamostly inland floodingLow

Lansingmostly inland floodingLow

Leavenworthmostly inland floodingLow

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. High Prairie covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to High Prairie’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of High Prairie. 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 High Prairie total about $1.9M 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.