Natural hazards · Avilla

Avilla, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avilla 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 Avilla?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avilla to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding40%Drought25%Tornadoes13%Cold waves6%Heat waves5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Avilla faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Drought

25% of expected damage

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 16 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Avilla flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jasper County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Avilla

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AvillaDeclared for Jasper County only

Jasper 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. Avilla 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 Avilla’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Avilla. 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.