Natural hazards · McCamish

McCamish, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in McCamish comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2008.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is McCamish?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in McCamish to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding56%Tornadoes16%Cold waves9%Heat waves8%Hail5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What McCamish faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 34 years in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 10 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 McCamish flood?

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

3paid claims since 2008

$41Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20082026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. McCamish 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.

Disasters that hit McCamish

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into McCamishDeclared for Johnson County only

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

Around McCamish

McCamish and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

McCamishmostly inland floodingHigh

Edgertonmostly inland floodingHigh

Richlandmostly inland floodingModerate

Gardnermostly inland floodingLow

Palmyramostly 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. McCamish covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to McCamish’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of McCamish. 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 McCamish total about $1.5M 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.