Natural hazards · Maize

Maize, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Maize comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2008. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Maize?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Maize to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding36%Tornadoes22%Cold waves21%Heat waves8%Hail6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Maize faces

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 32 years in the area

Cold waves

21% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 14 times a year 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

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Maize flood?

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

1paid claims since 2008

$17Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20082026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ike: 1 claim, $17K

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. Maize isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Sedgwick County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

5storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Maize

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MaizeDeclared for Sedgwick County only

2005

Severe Winter Storms, Heavy Rains, and Flooding

$32K to the City of Maize for repairs

Sedgwick County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Maize

Maize and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wichitamostly inland floodingModerate

Maizemostly inland floodingModerate

Parkmostly inland floodingModerate

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