Natural hazards · Bennett Springs

Bennett Springs, MO natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Bennett Springs?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bennett Springs to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding38%Cold waves24%Ice storms10%Heat waves9%Tornadoes7%Earthquakes5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Bennett Springs faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Ice storms

10% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter 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 Bennett Springs flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Bennett 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: Laclede County.

Disasters that hit Bennett Springs

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Bennett SpringsDeclared for Laclede County only

Laclede County has had 18 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. Bennett 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 Bennett Springs’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Bennett 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.