Natural hazards · Medora

Medora, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Medora comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Medora?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Medora to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and inland flooding.

Wildfire24%Inland flooding23%Tornadoes20%Cold waves8%Strong wind8%Hail7%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Medora faces

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

Wildfire

24% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

23% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Medora flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Medora.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Reno County.

Disasters that hit Medora

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MedoraDeclared for Reno County only

Reno County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

Around Medora

Medora and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Medoramostly wildfiresVery high

Claymostly wildfiresVery high

Little Rivermostly wildfiresVery high

Little Valleymostly inland floodingHigh

Renomostly tornadoesLow

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. Medora 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 Medora’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Medora. 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.