Natural hazards · Lansing

Lansing, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lansing comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1993. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lansing?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lansing to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding39%Tornadoes22%Cold waves11%Heat waves10%Strong wind6%Hail5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Lansing faces

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

Inland flooding

39% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 67 years in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Hail

5% 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 weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Lansing flood?

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

6paid claims since 1993

$99Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

Biggest named events

Late spring storms: 1 claim, $4K
Midwest Flooding: 1 claim, $10K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

🏷️ 15% off flood insurance. Lansing is in FEMA’s Community Rating System (class 7) for its flood-proofing work.

Insurance rates: Leavenworth County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Lansing

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LansingDeclared for Leavenworth County only

2011

Flooding

$3K to the City of Lansing for repairs

2009

Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorm

$6K to the City of Lansing for repairs

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$30K to the City of Lansing for repairs

2007

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

4 households applied for aid $865 aid approved

2005

Severe Winter Storms, Heavy Rains, and Flooding

$8K to the City of Lansing for repairs

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

Around Lansing

Lansing and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Delawaremostly inland floodingLow

High Prairiemostly inland floodingLow

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