Natural hazards · Baring

Baring, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Baring comes from heat waves, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Baring?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Baring to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from heat waves and inland flooding.

Heat waves41%Inland flooding30%Tornadoes13%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Baring faces

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

Heat waves

41% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Baring flood?

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

Disasters that hit Baring

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BaringDeclared for Knox County only

2023

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

$53K to the City of Baring for repairs

Knox County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice 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. Baring 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 Baring’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Baring. 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.