Natural hazards · Mission

Mission, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mission comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mission?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mission to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding41%Tornadoes21%Drought11%Heat waves7%Hail6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Mission faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Drought

11% of expected damage

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Mission flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Brown County.

Disasters that hit Mission

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MissionDeclared for Brown County only

Brown County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Mission

Mission and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Missionmostly inland floodingModerate

Hortonmostly inland floodingModerate

Washingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

Grasshoppermostly inland floodingModerate

Powhattanmostly inland floodingModerate

Hiawathamostly 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. Mission covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Mission’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Mission. 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 Mission total about $2.8M 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.