Natural hazards · Viola

Viola, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Viola comes from inland flooding, 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 Viola?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Viola to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding33%Tornadoes21%Cold waves16%Hail12%Heat waves6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Viola faces

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

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hail

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Viola flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sedgwick County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Viola

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ViolaDeclared for Sedgwick County only

Sedgwick County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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