Natural hazards · Rose Hill

Rose Hill, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rose Hill comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2008. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Rose Hill?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rose Hill 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 Rose Hill 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 Rose Hill flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Rose Hill, 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. Rose Hill 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.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Rose Hill

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Rose Hill itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Rose Hill.

Brought FEMA money into Rose HillDeclared for Butler County only

2007

Severe Storms and Flooding

4 households applied for aid $10K aid approved $2K to the City of Rose Hill for repairs

2005

Severe Winter Storms, Heavy Rains, and Flooding

$29K to the City of Rose Hill for repairs

2002

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$949 to the City of Rose Hill for repairs

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

Around Rose Hill

Rose Hill and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Richlandmostly inland floodingHigh

Rose Hillmostly tornadoesModerate

Pleasantmostly 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. Rose Hill covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Rose Hill’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Rose Hill. 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 Rose Hill 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.