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Natural hazards · Bowling Green

Bowling Green, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bowling Green comes from heat waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Bowling Green?

25
Low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bowling Green to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from heat waves and inland flooding.

Heat waves33%Inland flooding27%Cold waves12%Tornadoes8%Earthquakes6%Strong wind6%Everything else8%
By hazard

What Bowling Green faces

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

Heat waves

33% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places
Recorded about 10 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 28% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Strong wind

6% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places
Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

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 Bowling Green flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Bowling Green 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 Bowling Green

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Bowling GreenDeclared for Pike County only
2019

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $10K aid approved
2007

Severe Winter Storms

$23K to the City of Bowling Green for repairs
2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

19 households applied for aid $33K aid approved $35K to the City of Bowling Green for repairs
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. Bowling Green 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 Bowling Green’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Bowling Green. 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.

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