Natural hazards · Nemaha

Nemaha, KS natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Nemaha?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Nemaha to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding43%Tornadoes28%Heat waves6%Wildfire6%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Nemaha faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

28% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Nemaha flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Nemaha County.

Disasters that hit Nemaha

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NemahaDeclared for Nemaha County only

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

Around Nemaha

Nemaha and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Nemahamostly inland floodingLow

Clear Creekmostly inland floodingLow

Washingtonmostly inland floodingLow

Richmondmostly inland floodingLow

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