Natural hazards · Leawood

Leawood, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Leawood comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Leawood?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Leawood 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 Leawood 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 Leawood flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Leawood 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 Leawood

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LeawoodDeclared for Newton County only

2007

Severe Winter Storms

$6K to the Village of Leawood for repairs

Newton County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Leawood

Leawood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Leawoodmostly inland floodingHigh

Joplinmostly inland floodingModerate

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. Leawood 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 Leawood’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Leawood. 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.