Natural hazards · Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Pleasant comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mount Pleasant?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mount Pleasant to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding40%Tornadoes17%Drought12%Hail7%Wildfire6%Strong wind5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Mount Pleasant faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Drought

12% of expected damage

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

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

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Mount Pleasant flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Atchison County.

Disasters that hit Mount Pleasant

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Mount Pleasant itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Mount Pleasant.

Brought FEMA money into Mount PleasantDeclared for Atchison County only

2015

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

$13K to the Township of Mount Pleasant for repairs

2009

Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorm

$38K to the Township of Mount Pleasant for repairs

2005

Severe Storms and Flooding

$70K to the Township of Mount Pleasant for repairs

2005

Severe Winter Storms, Heavy Rains, and Flooding

$1K to the Township of Mount Pleasant for repairs

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

Around Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Eastonmostly inland floodingModerate

Nortonmostly inland floodingModerate

Atchisonmostly inland floodingModerate

Mount Pleasantmostly inland floodingModerate

Walnutmostly inland floodingModerate

Centermostly inland floodingModerate

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