Natural hazards · Pleasant Gap

Pleasant Gap, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant Gap comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2007. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant Gap?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Gap to be higher than in 74% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding56%Tornadoes10%Cold waves10%Strong wind7%Heat waves5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Pleasant Gap faces

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

Inland flooding

56% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Pleasant Gap flood?

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

1paid claims since 2007

$19Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20072026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bates County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant Gap

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant GapDeclared for Bates County only

2015

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

$13K to the Township of Pleasant Gap for repairs

Bates County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and ice storms.

Around Pleasant Gap

Pleasant Gap and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pleasant Gapmostly inland floodingHigh

Prairiemostly inland floodingHigh

Lone Oakmostly inland floodingHigh

Hudsonmostly inland floodingHigh

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. Pleasant Gap covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pleasant Gap’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Pleasant Gap. 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 Pleasant Gap total about $1.8M 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.