Natural hazards · Perkins

Perkins, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Perkins 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 Perkins?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Perkins to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and tornadoes.

Earthquakes46%Tornadoes17%Inland flooding13%Heat waves6%Cold waves5%Strong wind5%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Perkins faces

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

Earthquakes

46% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 22 years in the area

Inland flooding

13% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Perkins flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Scott County.

Disasters that hit Perkins

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PerkinsDeclared for Scott County only

Scott County has had 25 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Perkins

Perkins and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Perkinsmostly earthquakesVery high

Pikemostly earthquakesHigh

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