Natural hazards · Dennis Acres

Dennis Acres, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dennis Acres 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 Dennis Acres?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dennis Acres to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding52%Tornadoes19%Heat waves9%Ice storms6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Dennis Acres faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 83 years in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter 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 Dennis Acres flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Newton County.

Disasters that hit Dennis Acres

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Dennis AcresDeclared for Newton County only

Newton County has had 24 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. Dennis Acres 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 Dennis Acres’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Dennis Acres. 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.