Natural hazards · Palmyra

Palmyra, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Palmyra comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 2008.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Palmyra?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Palmyra to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding44%Tornadoes25%Hail7%Cold waves6%Strong wind5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Palmyra faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

25% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Palmyra flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Palmyra, from FEMA’s records.

14paid claims since 2008

$518Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20082026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Douglas County.

Disasters that hit Palmyra

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PalmyraDeclared for Douglas County only

Douglas County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Palmyra

Palmyra and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

McCamishmostly inland floodingHigh

Hayesmostly inland floodingModerate

Franklinmostly inland floodingModerate

Eudoramostly inland floodingModerate

Willow Springsmostly inland floodingModerate

Wakarusamostly inland floodingLow

Palmyramostly 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. Palmyra covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Palmyra’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Palmyra. 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 Palmyra total about $2.9M 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.