Natural hazards · Slaughters

Slaughters, KY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Slaughters comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very 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 Slaughters?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Slaughters to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding46%Earthquakes15%Strong wind10%Tornadoes8%Ice storms6%Drought5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Slaughters faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

15% of expected damage

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

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

5% of expected damage

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Slaughters flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Slaughters 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.

Disasters that hit Slaughters

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into SlaughtersDeclared for Webster County only

2025

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

31 households applied for aid $326K aid approved

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

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