Natural hazards · Scandia

Scandia, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Scandia comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 2003.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Scandia?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Scandia to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hail.

Inland flooding31%Hail29%Strong wind14%Tornadoes11%Ice storms7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Scandia faces

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

29% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Strong wind

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Ice storms

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Winter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Scandia flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Scandia, from FEMA’s records.

6paid claims since 2003

$125Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

20032026

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Republic County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Scandia

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ScandiaDeclared for Republic County only

Republic County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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