Natural hazards · Wingfield

Wingfield, KS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wingfield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2019.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wingfield?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wingfield to be higher than in 76% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding44%Tornadoes22%Wildfire15%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Wingfield faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Wildfire

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Wingfield flood?

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

1paid claims since 2019

$11Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20192026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Geary County.

Disasters that hit Wingfield

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WingfieldDeclared for Geary County only

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

Around Wingfield

Wingfield and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingHigh

Wingfieldmostly inland floodingHigh

Libertymostly inland floodingHigh

Jacksonmostly inland floodingHigh

Ashlandmostly 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. Wingfield covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wingfield’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wingfield. 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 Wingfield total about $2.1M 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.