Natural hazards · Southside

Southside, KS natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Southside?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Southside to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought.

Drought53%Hail13%Inland flooding12%Cold waves8%Tornadoes6%Strong wind5%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Southside faces

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

Drought

53% of expected damage

Recorded about 90 times a year in the area

Hail

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

12% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 11% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

5% 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 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 Southside flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Kearny County.

Disasters that hit Southside

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SouthsideDeclared for Kearny County only

Kearny County has had 9 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Southside

Southside and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Sherlockmostly droughtModerate

Southsidemostly droughtLow

Lakinmostly droughtLow

Deerfieldmostly droughtLow

Kendallmostly droughtLow

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