Natural hazards · Collins

Collins, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Collins comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high 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 Collins?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Collins to be higher than in 77% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding50%Drought11%Cold waves11%Tornadoes8%Heat waves5%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Collins faces

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

Inland flooding

50% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

11% of expected damage

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 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 Collins flood?

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

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Collins

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into CollinsDeclared for St. Clair County only

2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$1K to the Village of Collins for repairs

2006

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

5 households applied for aid $29K aid approved

2004

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $1K aid approved

St. Clair 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. Collins 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 Collins’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Collins. 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.