Natural hazards · Windy Hills

Windy Hills, KY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Windy Hills comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 23 claims here since 1997.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Windy Hills?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Windy Hills to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding67%Tornadoes22%Earthquakes5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Windy Hills faces

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

Inland flooding

67% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Windy Hills flood?

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

23paid claims since 1997

$222Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19972026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson County.

Disasters that hit Windy Hills

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Windy HillsDeclared for Jefferson County only

Jefferson County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Windy Hills

Windy Hills and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

St. Matthewsmostly inland floodingHigh

Windy Hillsmostly inland floodingHigh

Woodlawn Parkmostly inland floodingHigh

Maryhill Estatesmostly inland floodingHigh

Graymoor-Devondalemostly 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. Windy Hills covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Windy Hills’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Windy Hills. 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 Windy Hills total about $2.4M 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.