Natural hazards · Solomon-District 3

Solomon-District 3, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Solomon-District 3 comes from hail, 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 Solomon-District 3?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Solomon-District 3 to be higher than in 67% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and inland flooding.

Hail28%Inland flooding18%Drought17%Tornadoes16%Strong wind12%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Solomon-District 3 faces

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

Hail

28% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Drought

17% of expected damage

Recorded about 74 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Solomon-District 3 flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Solomon-District 3.

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Solomon-District 3 isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Norton County.

Disasters that hit Solomon-District 3

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Norton County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Solomon-District 3 itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Solomon-District 3Declared for Norton County only

Norton County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Solomon-District 3

Solomon-District 3 and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Solomon-District 3mostly hailHigh

Highland-District 2mostly hailHigh

Almena-District 4mostly hailHigh

Center-District 1mostly hailHigh

Loganmostly hailHigh

Towandamostly hailHigh

Grahammostly droughtModerate

Pioneermostly droughtModerate

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. Solomon-District 3 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 Solomon-District 3’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Solomon-District 3. 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.