Natural hazards · Ashley

Ashley, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Ashley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Ashley?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ashley to be higher than in 43% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding34%Heat waves25%Cold waves11%Tornadoes7%Strong wind7%Earthquakes6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Ashley faces

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

Inland flooding

34% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

25% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Ashley flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pike County.

Disasters that hit Ashley

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AshleyDeclared for Pike County only

Pike County has had 19 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. Ashley 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 Ashley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Ashley. 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.