Natural hazards · Wea

Wea, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wea comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2017.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wea?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wea to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding42%Tornadoes18%Strong wind9%Cold waves9%Heat waves8%Hail7%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Wea faces

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

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 49 years in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice 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 Wea flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Wea, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2017

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20172026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Miami County.

Disasters that hit Wea

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WeaDeclared for Miami County only

Miami County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and tornadoes.

Around Wea

Wea and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Middle Creekmostly inland floodingModerate

Ten Milemostly inland floodingModerate

Weamostly inland floodingModerate

Louisburgmostly 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. Wea covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wea’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wea. 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 Wea total about $1.6M 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.