Natural hazards · Richland

Richland, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Richland comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 8 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Richland?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Richland to be higher than in 30% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding31%Cold waves22%Heat waves17%Tornadoes11%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Richland faces

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 30% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

17% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 43 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Richland flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pulaski County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Richland

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into RichlandDeclared for Pulaski County only

2019

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

12 households applied for aid $23K aid approved

2017

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds and Flooding

10 households applied for aid $28K aid approved

2015

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

12 households applied for aid $22K aid approved

2011

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

$4K to the City of Richland for repairs

2009

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

2 households applied for aid

2008

Severe Storms and Flooding

25 households applied for aid $117K aid approved $29K to the City of Richland for repairs

2007

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

$191K to the City of Richland for repairs

2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $676 aid approved

Pulaski County has had 21 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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

Richland, MO natural hazards

How exposed is Richland?

What Richland faces

Inland flooding

Cold waves

Heat waves

Tornadoes

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Richland flood?

What’s been done with FEMA grants

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds and Flooding

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

Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

Severe Storms and Flooding

Severe Winter Storms and Flooding

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

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