Natural hazards · Pleasant

Pleasant, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2008. 10 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes33%Inland flooding25%Cold waves12%Heat waves9%Wildfire6%Strong wind6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Pleasant faces

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

Tornadoes

33% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

25% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Wildfire

6% of expected damage

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

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Pleasant flood?

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

1paid claims since 2008

$22Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20082026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Butler County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant

10 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Pleasant itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Township of Pleasant.

Brought FEMA money into PleasantDeclared for Butler County only

2024

Severe Winter Storm

$165K to the Township of Pleasant for repairs

2019

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, Flooding,landslides,and Mudslides

$100K to the Township of Pleasant for repairs

2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$42K to the Township of Pleasant for repairs

2013

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$79K to the Township of Pleasant for repairs

2009

Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorm

$33K to the Township of Pleasant for repairs

2008

Severe Storms, Flooding and Tornadoes

$202K to the Township of Pleasant for repairs

2007

Severe Storms and Flooding

$42K to the Township of Pleasant for repairs

2005

Severe Winter Storms, Heavy Rains, and Flooding

$38K to the Township of Pleasant for repairs

2004

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes

$53K to the Township of Pleasant for repairs

2002

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$28K to the Township of Pleasant for repairs

Butler County has had 25 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Pleasant

Pleasant and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Walnutmostly wildfiresVery high

Richlandmostly inland floodingHigh

Brunomostly inland floodingHigh

Gypsummostly wildfiresModerate

Pleasantmostly tornadoesModerate

Rose Hillmostly tornadoesModerate

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. Pleasant covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pleasant’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pleasant. 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 Pleasant total about $1.7M 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.