Natural hazards · Stranger

Stranger, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Stranger comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Stranger?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Stranger to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding47%Tornadoes19%Cold waves10%Heat waves9%Strong wind5%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Stranger faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 39 years in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Stranger flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Leavenworth County.

Disasters that hit Stranger

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into StrangerDeclared for Leavenworth County only

Leavenworth County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Stranger

Stranger and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Tonganoxiemostly inland floodingModerate

Strangermostly inland floodingModerate

Shermanmostly inland floodingModerate

High Prairiemostly inland floodingLow

Fairmountmostly inland floodingLow

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. Stranger covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Stranger’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Stranger. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Stranger total about $2.0M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.