Richfield is calmer than 76% of U.S. communities
Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Richfield comes from drought, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.
What stands out about Richfield’s weather risks
Read from FEMA’s records below. The page puts what stands out first.
How exposed is Richfield?
FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings here to be higher than in 24% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.
Calmer than 1,972 of the 1,995 Kansas towns we cover.
Richfield is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.
Does Richfield flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Richfield. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
What Richfield faces
Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
Drought
Tornadoes
Inland flooding
Wildfire
Hail
Federal disasters declared here
None of the disasters declared for Morton County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Richfield itself in FEMA’s records.
Morton County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.
Get ready for what Richfield actually faces
A short kit for its top hazards, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- On a well? Know how deep it is and watch for sputtering.
- Follow the town’s watering limits.
- Fix drips: they add up.
- Pick your spot now: the lowest floor, an inside room, no windows.
- A watch means be ready; a warning means take cover now.
- Keep shoes and a flashlight by the bed.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
Know where neighbors sign up for alerts? Add it to the Handbook so everyone has it.
What these numbers can and can’t tell you
- An average, not a forecast. FEMA’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 there, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings.
- Money that reached town. Flood claims are matched to Richfield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Richfield.
- It follows property value. FEMA’s model weighs damage to buildings, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Richfield.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. An average of past damage, not a forecast.