Natural hazards · Lowes

Lowes, KY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lowes comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lowes?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lowes to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes.

Earthquakes58%Inland flooding15%Cold waves6%Tornadoes5%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Lowes faces

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

Earthquakes

58% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

15% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times 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

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Lowes flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Graves County.

Disasters that hit Lowes

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LowesDeclared for Graves County only

Graves County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Lowes 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 Lowes’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Lowes. 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.