Natural hazards · Newbern

Newbern, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Newbern 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 Newbern?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Newbern to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding41%Tornadoes18%Heat waves9%Hail8%Strong wind8%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Newbern 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 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Hail

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Newbern flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dickinson County.

Disasters that hit Newbern

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into NewbernDeclared for Dickinson County only

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

Around Newbern

Newbern and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Loganmostly inland floodingModerate

Newbernmostly inland floodingModerate

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingModerate

Garfieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Grantmostly inland floodingModerate

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