Natural hazards · Kickapoo

Kickapoo, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kickapoo comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 77 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Kickapoo?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kickapoo to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes17%Cold waves8%Heat waves7%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Kickapoo faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Kickapoo flood?

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

77paid claims since 1981

$1.6Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

Biggest named events

Midwest Flooding: 3 claims, $78K
Late spring storms: 1 claim, $89K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Kickapoo 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 Kickapoo

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KickapooDeclared for Leavenworth County only

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

Around Kickapoo

Kickapoo and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Westonmostly inland floodingHigh

Kickapoomostly inland floodingModerate

Eastonmostly inland floodingModerate

Walnutmostly inland floodingModerate

High Prairiemostly inland floodingLow

Delawaremostly 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. Kickapoo covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Kickapoo’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Kickapoo. 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 Kickapoo total about $1.8M 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.