Natural hazards · Kapioma

Kapioma, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kapioma comes from inland flooding, 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 Kapioma?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding40%Tornadoes17%Drought12%Hail7%Wildfire6%Strong wind5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Kapioma faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Drought

12% of expected damage

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

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

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Kapioma flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Atchison County.

Disasters that hit Kapioma

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into KapiomaDeclared for Atchison County only

2005

Severe Storms and Flooding

$33K to the Township of Kapioma for repairs

Atchison County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Kapioma

Kapioma and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Delawaremostly inland floodingModerate

Kapiomamostly inland floodingModerate

Grasshoppermostly inland floodingModerate

Bentonmostly inland floodingModerate

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