Natural hazards · Summers

Summers, KS natural hazards

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

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Summers to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and hail.

Drought37%Hail29%Inland flooding16%Tornadoes10%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Summers faces

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

Drought

37% of expected damage

Recorded about 84 times a year in the area

Hail

29% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 14% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Summers flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Thomas County.

Disasters that hit Summers

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SummersDeclared for Thomas County only

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

Around Summers

Summers and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Summersmostly droughtLow

South Randallmostly droughtLow

Kingerymostly droughtLow

North Randallmostly droughtLow

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