Natural hazards · Morris

Morris, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Morris comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 13 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Morris?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Morris to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves35%Inland flooding26%Heat waves11%Tornadoes9%Earthquakes8%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Morris faces

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

Cold waves

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Morris flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Texas County.

Disasters that hit Morris

13 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MorrisDeclared for Texas County only

2024

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

$254K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2024

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

$387K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2019

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$295K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2017

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds and Flooding

$178K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2015

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

$190K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2013

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds and Flooding

$76K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2013

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

$74K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$54K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2009

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$8K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2008

Severe Storms, Flooding, and a Tornado

$3K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

$46K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2008

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

$10K to the Township of Morris for repairs

2002

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

$46K to the Township of Morris for repairs

Texas County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

Around Morris

Morris and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Clintonmostly inland floodingHigh

Burdinemostly inland floodingHigh

Cassmostly cold wavesHigh

Morrismostly cold wavesModerate

Uptonmostly cold wavesModerate

Pineymostly cold wavesModerate

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