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Natural hazards · Dixon

Dixon, KY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dixon comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Dixon?

69
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dixon to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding27%Earthquakes23%Strong wind13%Tornadoes10%Ice storms7%Cold waves6%Everything else14%
By hazard

What Dixon faces

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

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

23% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Strong wind

13% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Ice storms

7% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightning

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 Dixon flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Dixon isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Webster County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Dixon

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Dixon itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Dixon.

Brought FEMA money into DixonDeclared for Webster County only
2025

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

4 households applied for aid $15K aid approved
2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

3 households applied for aid
Webster County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.
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. Dixon 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 Dixon’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Dixon. 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.

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