Natural hazards · Green Ridge

Green Ridge, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Green Ridge 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 Green Ridge?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Green Ridge to be higher than in 65% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding47%Cold waves15%Tornadoes15%Heat waves9%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Green Ridge faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 13 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Green Ridge flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pettis County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Green Ridge

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Green RidgeDeclared for Pettis County only

2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$1K to the City of Green Ridge for repairs

2006

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

22 households applied for aid $11K aid approved $375 to the City of Green Ridge for repairs

2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

3 households applied for aid

Pettis County has had 17 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. Green Ridge 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 Green Ridge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Green Ridge. 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.