Natural hazards · Leawood

Leawood, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Leawood comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 72 claims here since 1979. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Leawood?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Leawood to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding47%Tornadoes21%Cold waves10%Heat waves9%Hail6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Leawood faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice 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 Leawood flood?

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

72paid claims since 1979

$1.6Mpaid to owners

10homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Not a named storm: 13 claims, $254K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Johnson County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Leawood

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LeawoodDeclared for Johnson County only

2023

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$154K to the City of Leawood for repairs

2017

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$719K to the City of Leawood for repairs

2002

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$1.1M to the City of Leawood for repairs

Johnson County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Leawood

Leawood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Prairie Villagemostly inland floodingLow

Kansas Citymostly inland floodingLow

Overland Parkmostly inland floodingLow

Leawoodmostly 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. Leawood covers 6 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Leawood’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Leawood. 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 Leawood total about $15.3M 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.