Natural hazards · Sharon

Sharon, KS natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sharon?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sharon to be higher than in 86% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and wildfires.

Cold waves42%Wildfire19%Inland flooding13%Drought10%Tornadoes8%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Sharon faces

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

Cold waves

42% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Wildfire

19% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Drought

10% of expected damage

Recorded about 52 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Sharon flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Barber County.

Disasters that hit Sharon

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SharonDeclared for Barber County only

Barber County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

Around Sharon

Sharon and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sharonmostly cold wavesVery high

Medicine Lodgemostly cold wavesVery high

Libertymostly inland floodingHigh

Hazeltonmostly cold wavesHigh

Township 1mostly droughtHigh

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