Natural hazards · Wallace

Wallace, KS natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wallace to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hail.

Inland flooding38%Hail22%Cold waves13%Tornadoes11%Strong wind8%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Wallace faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hail

22% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Wallace flood?

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

Disasters that hit Wallace

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WallaceDeclared for Wallace County only

Wallace County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Wallace

Wallace and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wallacemostly inland floodingModerate

Sharon Springsmostly inland floodingModerate

Harrisonmostly inland floodingModerate

Westernmostly droughtLow

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