Natural hazards · Crestview

Crestview, KY natural hazards

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

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Crestview to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding40%Tornadoes24%Cold waves14%Earthquakes5%Strong wind5%Heat waves5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Crestview faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

24% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Crestview flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Campbell County.

Disasters that hit Crestview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into CrestviewDeclared for Campbell County only

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

Around Crestview

Crestview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cold Springmostly inland floodingModerate

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