Natural hazards · Iuka

Iuka, KS natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Iuka?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Iuka to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and cold waves.

Drought38%Cold waves21%Hail18%Inland flooding8%Tornadoes7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Iuka faces

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

Drought

38% of expected damage

Recorded about 56 times a year in the area

Cold waves

21% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year 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 Iuka flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pratt County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Iuka

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into IukaDeclared for Pratt County only

Pratt County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

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