Natural hazards · Freeborn

Freeborn, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Freeborn comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Freeborn?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Freeborn to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes.

Earthquakes54%Inland flooding12%Drought10%Heat waves8%Tornadoes7%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Freeborn faces

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

Earthquakes

54% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

12% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

10% of expected damage

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Freeborn flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Dunklin County.

Disasters that hit Freeborn

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FreebornDeclared for Dunklin County only

Dunklin County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Freeborn

Freeborn and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Cotton Hillmostly earthquakesVery high

Independencemostly earthquakesVery high

Freebornmostly earthquakesVery high

Holcombmostly earthquakesVery high

Clarktonmostly earthquakesVery high

Unionmostly earthquakesVery 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. Freeborn 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 Freeborn’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Freeborn. 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.