Natural hazards · Pike

Pike, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pike comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 17 claims here since 1993.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pike?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pike to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes.

Earthquakes42%Inland flooding12%Tornadoes11%Cold waves11%Heat waves8%Strong wind8%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Pike faces

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

Earthquakes

42% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

12% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 6% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 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 Pike flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Pike, from FEMA’s records.

17paid claims since 1993

$175Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

Biggest named events

Mid-spring storms: 6 claims, $98K
March storm: 5 claims, $25K
Midwest Flooding: 1 claim, $15K

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Stoddard County.

Disasters that hit Pike

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PikeDeclared for Stoddard County only

Stoddard County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Pike

Pike and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

New Lisbonmostly earthquakesVery high

Castormostly earthquakesVery high

Richlandmostly earthquakesVery 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. Pike covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pike’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pike. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Pike total about $2.7M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.