Natural hazards · Pleasant Valley

Pleasant Valley, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant Valley comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant Valley?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Valley to be higher than in 26% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves30%Inland flooding28%Tornadoes21%Heat waves13%Hail5%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Pleasant Valley faces

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

Cold waves

30% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 34% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Hail

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Valley flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Clay County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant Valley

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant ValleyDeclared for Clay County only

2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

2002

Severe Winter Ice Storm

$19K to the City of Pleasant Valley for repairs

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

Around Pleasant Valley

Pleasant Valley and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kansas Citymostly inland floodingLow

Libertymostly inland floodingLow

Claycomomostly inland floodingLow

Pleasant Valleymostly cold wavesLow

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 Valley covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pleasant Valley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Pleasant Valley. 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 Valley total about $1.0M 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.