Natural hazards · Paris

Paris, KS natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Paris to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding52%Tornadoes15%Strong wind9%Cold waves7%Hail6%Heat waves5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Paris faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Paris flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Linn County.

Disasters that hit Paris

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ParisDeclared for Linn County only

Linn County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Paris

Paris and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Parismostly inland floodingModerate

Centervillemostly inland floodingModerate

Scottmostly inland floodingModerate

Valleymostly inland floodingModerate

Mound Citymostly inland floodingModerate

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