Natural hazards · Roosevelt

Roosevelt, KS natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Roosevelt to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and inland flooding.

Hail36%Inland flooding20%Strong wind15%Drought14%Tornadoes8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Roosevelt 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 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Strong wind

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Drought

14% of expected damage

Recorded about 88 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% 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 Roosevelt flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Decatur County.

Disasters that hit Roosevelt

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RooseveltDeclared for Decatur County only

Decatur County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Roosevelt

Roosevelt and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rooseveltmostly hailModerate

Lincolnmostly hailModerate

Olivemostly hailModerate

Harlanmostly hailModerate

Altorymostly hailModerate

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