Natural hazards · Kanwaka

Kanwaka, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kanwaka comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kanwaka?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kanwaka to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding53%Tornadoes19%Hail6%Everything else22%

By hazard

What Kanwaka faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Hail

6% 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 weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Kanwaka flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Douglas County.

Disasters that hit Kanwaka

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KanwakaDeclared for Douglas County only

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

Around Kanwaka

Kanwaka and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kanwakamostly inland floodingModerate

Clintonmostly inland floodingModerate

Monmouthmostly inland floodingModerate

Lawrencemostly inland floodingLow

Tecumsehmostly inland floodingLow

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