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Natural hazards · Fisk

Fisk, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fisk comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2011. 8 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Fisk?

81
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fisk to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding36%Earthquakes31%Tornadoes14%Heat waves9%Everything else10%
By hazard

What Fisk faces

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places
Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

31% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 21 years in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places
Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Fisk flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Fisk, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2011
$9Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
20112026

Biggest named events

  • Mid-spring storms: 1 claim, $9K
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Fisk isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Butler County.
Disasters that hit Fisk

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into FiskDeclared for Butler County only
2025

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

2 households applied for aid $16K aid approved
2025

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

2 households applied for aid
2024

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

1 household applied for aid
2017

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds and Flooding

3 households applied for aid $13K aid approved
2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

29 households applied for aid $195K aid approved
2009

Severe Winter Storm

$29K to the City of Fisk for repairs
2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

13 households applied for aid $9K aid approved
2006

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid
Butler County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.
Around Fisk

Fisk and the towns around it

Duck Creek: Very high, mostly earthquakesLiberty: Very high, mostly earthquakesNew Lisbon: Very high, mostly earthquakesCastor: Very high, mostly earthquakesFisk: Very high, mostly inland flooding FiskDuck Creek
Very lowLowModerateHighVery high
Duck Creekmostly earthquakesVery high
Fiskmostly inland floodingVery high
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. Fisk 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 Fisk’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Fisk. 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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