Natural hazards · Royal

Royal, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Royal comes from drought, 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 Royal?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Royal to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and hail.

Drought41%Hail23%Inland flooding17%Tornadoes7%Cold waves7%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Royal faces

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

Drought

41% of expected damage

Recorded about 65 times a year in the area

Hail

23% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

17% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Royal flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ford County.

Disasters that hit Royal

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RoyalDeclared for Ford County only

Ford County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Royal

Royal and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

South Roscoemostly droughtHigh

Royalmostly droughtModerate

Cimarronmostly droughtModerate

Grandviewmostly inland floodingLow

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