Natural hazards · Sawlog

Sawlog, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sawlog comes from drought, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sawlog?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sawlog to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and hail.

Drought28%Hail23%Inland flooding20%Tornadoes11%Cold waves11%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Sawlog faces

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

Drought

28% of expected damage

Recorded about 67 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

20% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 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 Sawlog flood?

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

Disasters that hit Sawlog

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SawlogDeclared for Hodgeman County only

Hodgeman County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Sawlog

Sawlog and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sawlogmostly droughtHigh

Centermostly droughtHigh

Sterlingmostly droughtHigh

South Roscoemostly droughtHigh

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