Natural hazards · Stockton

Stockton, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Stockton 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 Stockton?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Stockton to be higher than in 61% of U.S. communities, mostly from hail and drought.

Hail42%Drought18%Inland flooding13%Strong wind10%Tornadoes9%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Stockton faces

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

Hail

42% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Drought

18% of expected damage

Recorded about 45 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years 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 Stockton flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Rooks County.

Disasters that hit Stockton

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into StocktonDeclared for Rooks County only

Rooks County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Stockton

Stockton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Stocktonmostly hailHigh

Township 2mostly hailHigh

Township 3mostly hailHigh

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