Natural hazards · Aurora Springs

Aurora Springs, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Aurora Springs 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 Aurora Springs?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Aurora Springs to be higher than in 51% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding47%Tornadoes15%Heat waves12%Cold waves9%Earthquakes5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Aurora Springs faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 40 years in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Aurora Springs flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Miller County.

Disasters that hit Aurora Springs

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Aurora SpringsDeclared for Miller County only

Miller County has had 24 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. Aurora Springs 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 Aurora Springs’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Aurora Springs. 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.