Natural hazards · Jennings

Jennings, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Jennings comes from hail, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Jennings?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Jennings to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and inland flooding.

Hail36%Inland flooding20%Strong wind15%Drought14%Tornadoes8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Jennings faces

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

Hail

36% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Strong wind

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Drought

14% of expected damage

Recorded about 88 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Jennings flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Decatur County.

Disasters that hit Jennings

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into JenningsDeclared for Decatur County only

2006

Severe Winter Storm

$4K to the City of Jennings for repairs

Decatur County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter 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. Jennings 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 Jennings’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Jennings. 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.