Natural hazards · Wakenda

Wakenda, MO natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wakenda comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 1993.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wakenda?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wakenda to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding38%Tornadoes28%Cold waves16%Heat waves8%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Wakenda faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

28% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Cold waves

16% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Wakenda flood?

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

5paid claims since 1993

$81Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19932026

Biggest named events

Midwest Flooding: 4 claims, $79K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carroll County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

94flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

1flood-prone homes bought out and moved

Disasters that hit Wakenda

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into WakendaDeclared for Carroll County only

Carroll County has had 25 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Wakenda

Wakenda and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Moss Creekmostly inland floodingHigh

Sugartreemostly inland floodingHigh

Carrolltonmostly inland floodingModerate

Eugenemostly inland floodingModerate

Wakendamostly 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. Wakenda covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wakenda’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Wakenda. 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 Wakenda total about $2.2M 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.