Natural hazards · Palco

Palco, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Palco comes from hail, 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 Palco?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Hail36%Tornadoes18%Drought13%Strong wind12%Inland flooding12%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Palco faces

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

Hail

36% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Drought

13% of expected damage

Recorded about 48 times a year in the area

Strong wind

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

12% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 8% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Palco flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Rooks County.

Disasters that hit Palco

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PalcoDeclared for Rooks County only

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

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