Natural hazards · Schoenchen

Schoenchen, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Schoenchen comes from inland flooding, 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 Schoenchen?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Schoenchen to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding54%Hail10%Tornadoes9%Strong wind7%Drought7%Cold waves6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Schoenchen faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Drought

7% of expected damage

Recorded about 62 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Schoenchen flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ellis County.

Disasters that hit Schoenchen

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SchoenchenDeclared for Ellis County only

Ellis County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

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