Natural hazards · Wellington

Wellington, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wellington comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1980.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wellington?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wellington to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding38%Tornadoes27%Cold waves16%Heat waves7%Strong wind6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Wellington 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

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

27% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Wellington flood?

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

7paid claims since 1980

$62Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19802026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sumner County.

Disasters that hit Wellington

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WellingtonDeclared for Sumner County only

Sumner County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Wellington

Wellington and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wellingtonmostly inland floodingHigh

Jacksonmostly inland floodingHigh

Seventy-Sixmostly inland floodingHigh

Osbornemostly inland floodingHigh

Avonmostly inland floodingHigh

Wellingtonmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Wellington covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wellington’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wellington. 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 Wellington total about $2.4M 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.