Natural hazards · Truesdale

Truesdale, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Truesdale comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Truesdale?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Truesdale to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding35%Heat waves27%Earthquakes11%Tornadoes10%Cold waves6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Truesdale faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 31% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

27% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Truesdale flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Warren County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Truesdale

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TruesdaleDeclared for Warren County only

Warren County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Truesdale

Truesdale and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Truesdalemostly inland floodingLow

Warrentonmostly inland floodingLow

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