Natural hazards · Fair Grove

Fair Grove, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fair Grove comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fair Grove?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fair Grove to be higher than in 57% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding57%Heat waves14%Tornadoes9%Ice storms5%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Fair Grove faces

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

Inland flooding

57% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 36 years in the area

Ice storms

5% 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 Fair Grove flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Greene County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Fair Grove

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Fair GroveDeclared for Greene County only

2015

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

4 households applied for aid $200 aid approved

2009

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

84 households applied for aid $241K aid approved $25K to the City of Fair Grove for repairs

2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

9 households applied for aid $8K aid approved

2007

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

$18K to the City of Fair Grove for repairs

2006

Severe Winter Storms

$3K to the City of Fair Grove for repairs

Greene County has had 23 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. Fair Grove 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 Fair Grove’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Fair Grove. 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.